A proposed route to adopting this standard

The following mechanism is proposed to adopt the preceeding standard:

• the absence of the FITSVER keyword in the primary header will be taken to imply FITSVER = '0.0'. The definition of Version 0.0 for each FITS writer has to be inferred from an example FITS file.

• no change will be made to any existing FITS writer unless the result conforms to this (or subsequent) standard definitions.

• the Antenna Manager, Measurements, and Spectrometer FITS writers will adopt this standard for their initial implementations (with FITSVER = '1.1').

• the Scan Coordinator, IF Manager, Archivist, Spectrometer, and Glish client FITS writers will be modified to conform to this standard first.

• the DCR, Spectral Processor and Holography FITS writers will be modified to conform to this standard as time allows.