Dear Seth I think we can devise systems which will develop *proposed* standard names that conform to existing patterns and lexicon. If they do, they are often uncontroversial and usually accepted. However we still need a manual approval process because there are sometimes choices about how a quantity might be described i.e. there's more than one possible conformant proposal, and there are special cases when there is a commonly used term we might want to employ. Apart from those reasons, there are also a quite often proposals which require new lexicon, new interpretations or new patterns.
Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
