On Sep 19, 2013, at 13:58, Charlie Zender <[email protected]> wrote: > Nothing in our proposal mandates a single way of representing hierarchies. Au > contraire.
The concern by the hierarchy-wary is not that you'd mandate a single way, but that by providing an open mechanism, you would encourage a raft of competing ways, which in the aggregate are indecipherable and/or non-navigable without custom direction from the provider of that data. (In fact, a single way would have the advantage that it would be straightforward to understand and navigate, so you might actually be able to produce software packages that worked with it.) ------------------------------------ John Graybeal Senior Data Manager, Metadata and Semantics T +1 (408) 675-5545 F +1 (408) 616-1626 skype: graybealski Marinexplore 920 Stewart Drive Sunnyvale, CA _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
