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We do not wish to recommend any particular corrective action to any
particular problem. We hope that action to correct deficiencies will
flow from constructive community discussion, including the analysis of
other useful format solutions such as those described in the companion
papers \citep{2014Jenness,2014Kitaeff}.
Possible solutions may involve moving existing FITS
conventions into the core standard, modification of the FITS standard to
remove limitations or possibly transferring the FITS data model over
into a new serialization, or some selection of these actions.

We have illustrated a number of lessons to be learned from the FITS experience
in this paper. We do not wish however to recommend specific corrective action
to any particular problem. Instead we hope that action to correct deficiencies
will flow from constructive community discussion including the analysis of
other astronomical data formats and any lessons learned from their use
and construction.
The form of the possible resolutions to problems in FITS may involve moving
existing FITS conventions into the core standard, modification of the FITS
standard to remove limitations, or even transferring the FITS data model over
into a new serialization.

These technical problems will be solved one way or another. If the
community is not willing to do the hard work of hammering out a
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