I like the idea of a Google Doc to consolidate the issue list. Whether it will prove unwieldy is hard to guess.
A 3-month period for listing use-cases seems reasonable. It seems more CF-like to be use-case driven than to presume the entire netCDF4 data model will be adopted. This has the advantage of parsimony--only implement what is necessary. From a technical point-of-view, however, it is advantageous to know already what netCDF4 can and cannot easily do. In my view the intersection of important use-cases and netCDF4 capabilities is the "sweet spot" for CF-2.0. Once the smoke clears I may summarize use-cases for handling ensembles/replicants and for handling large integer numbers. These could raise the issues of having groups and 64-bit ints in CF-2.0. But first let's settle the framework for discussions. Best, Charlie -- Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci. University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'( _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
