I'm wondering whether CF Convention 2.0 is the right naming convention to be using to refer to this new branch.
Firstly, as the "classic" CF Convention has moved from 1.0 to 1.7 in 0.1 increments, is the original branch then forced after CF 1.9 to either merge with CF 2.0 or to adopt a new naming convention (1.9, 1.91, 1.92...1.991, 1.992...)? Secondly, as a newcomer to the CF Convention, if I find documents called CF Convention 1.7 and CF Convention 2.0, I'm probably going to assume that CF 2.0 is the document I should be using. As an alternative, the new branch could be given a unique name e.g. " CF Conventions Enhanced 1.0" (to imply the use of netCDF-4 enhanced features). Then we could refer to CF Enhanced 1.0 and CF 1.7 or CF Classic 1.7 when we need to differentiate between the two branches. Regards, Tim --------------------- Dr. Timothy Patterson Instrument Data Simulation Product Format Specification EUMETSAT Eumetsat-Allee 1 64295 Darmstadt Germany -----Original Message----- From: CF-metadata [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlie Zender Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 6:20 PM To: CF Metadata Mail List Subject: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion 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 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
