suggest the more general "but applications using the auxiliary coordinates to 
work with data may respond unpredictably when the auxiliary coordinates are 
missing."

john

On Mar 28, 2012, at 10:07, John Caron wrote:

> On 3/28/2012 10:49 AM, John Caron wrote:
>> I think we have a number of valid use cases for missing data in aux 
>> coordinates, and i would vote to allow that. 
> 
> sorry i didnt really answer jonathan's concern. I would suggest this wording:
> 
> Auxiliary coordinates do not have to be monotonic or have unique values, and 
> may contain missing values. Data providers may choose to put valid data where 
> the auxiliary coordinates are missing, but applications are free to assume 
> that data is missing where the auxiliary coordinates are missing.
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