... We summarize the discussions that took place during the FITS Birds of a Feather (BoF) session, which was held Monday, September 23, 1996 at 16:00. For completeness we also include a summary of the 1995 FITS BoF, which was never published. ... Oral papers by Clarke, Allen, Mink, Mandel, and Wells were presented in a special FITS afternoon session, and posters were presented by Pence, Farris, Tripicco, and Stobie; see the papers by these authors elsewhere in this volume. ... CFITSIO (Pence) . ...