Proposed Additions to FITS Standards January 24, 1995 This directory contains documents describing proposals for new FITS standards and recommended practices which have reached the stage where the FITS Committees can consider them for adoption: 1. Rob Seaman and Bill Pence have proposed a convention for adding checksums to FITS headers; see files checksum{1,2}.news. The 'checksum' directory contains a copy of directory ftp://iraf.noao.edu/misc/checksum. In particular, see file checksum/checksum.ps.