Dear Bryan I am not arguing against moving away from the status quo. I am arguing against (in most cases) moving away from a flat list, but you don't think that is the crucial point either. I am in favour of writing down all the rules (more than the guidelines show) in order to make it easier to add names which can be constructed from what we already have. I would like software tools to make it easier to do that.
I too don't as much about the name itself as about what it means and how we organise the information it contains in a clear and consistent way. We agree on that. What we disagree on is where the effort is mostly spent. I know for sure that most of the large amount of time I have myself spent on them has been on understanding the concepts and how they relate to each other, in order to describe them clearly and consistently. It seems to me that the majority of the time is required on the new names which don't conform to existing syntax or vocabulary. Perhaps you do agree with that, though? Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
