Speculation on the Future of FITS

D. Wells
NRAO

Session ID: T3.05   Type: oral

Abstract:

The history of the FITS negotiations and agreements will be reviewed, with emphasis on the lessons-learned and on the implications of those lessons for future data interchange format negotiations in astronomy. Opinions will be offered on the likely outcome of current FITS negotiations, such as the year-2000 problem and the WCS proposal, and on possible approaches to several unsolved problems. The long-term importance of the BINTABLE format as a platform for future layered-convention agreements will be stressed.





Patrick P. Murphy
Wed Sep 11 10:25:40 EDT 1996