Hi John In the spirit of CF being *constrained* netCDF, it seems that we wouldn't, unless we had a specific use case ... do you?
Cheers Bryan On 13 January 2014 18:54, <[email protected]> wrote: > As netCDF is growing to allow @, +, hyphen, and period in > variable/dimension/attribute names, is there any likelihood CF will grow to > allow some or all of those characters? > > I seem to recall some tools have conflicts with some of those characters > (aside from them being non-conformant). But consistency and flexibility > would be nice. > > john > ------------------------------------ > John Graybeal > Sr. Data Manager, Metadata & Semantics > > M +1 408 675-5445 > skype: graybealski > Marinexplore > 920 Stewart Drive > Sunnyvale 94085 > California, USA > www.marinexplore.com<http://marinexplore.com> > > > -- > Scanned by iCritical. > > -- Bryan Lawrence University of Reading: Professor of Weather and Climate Computing. National Centre for Atmospheric Science: Director of Models and Data. STFC: Director of the Centre for Environmental Data Archival. Ph: +44 118 3786507 or 1235 445012; Web:home.badc.rl.ac.uk/lawrence
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