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. > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata John Graybeal <mailto:[email protected]> phone: 858-534-2162 Product Manager Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Project: http://ci.oceanobservatories.org Marine Metadata Interoperability Project: http://marinemetadata.org _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
