If we have actually agreed on what CF-1.7 is -- that is, ALL the things that 
make up CF-1.7 -- then I agree that telling people to put CF-1.7 into the 
Conventions attribute is Just Fine.  But I didn't realize we knew what all the 
1.7 things were yet.

Also, if we do know what all the things are that make up CF-1.7, and that's all 
that's holding up CF-1.7, then the correct thing to do is go old school and 
just make a plain old CF-1.7 document in the fastest possible way. Don't worry 
about change markups, don't worry about production, just get it out there. The 
nice technological approach can then play catch-up, with the advantage of a 
target document to match.

But I didn't realize CF-1.7 was anywhere close to final form, so putting it in 
an attribute would be premature if that's true. 

John


On Jun 12, 2015, at 09:35, Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Heiko
> 
> We have to agree a new format for the source of the CF document, because the
> existing one appears hard to maintain, and that's one reason why CF 1.7 has
> not been completed. I hope this will be sorted out soon. All agreed tickets
> will be implemented.
> 
> In fact, I don't see why we shouldn't decide now on the list of tickets which
> will be included in CF 1.7 and say that people can put CF-1.7 into the
> Conventions attribute now, although the document itself does not exist. What
> do others think?
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Heiko Klein <[email protected]> -----
> 
>> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:35:15 +0200
>> From: Heiko Klein <[email protected]>
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Roms: ocean_s_coordinate_g1 and g2?
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
>>      Thunderbird/31.7.0
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> three years ago, Rich submitted the addition for a new
>> ocean_s_coordinates_g* to the ticket system:
>> http://cf-trac.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/93 The ticket was approved by 3
>> authors and accepted in 2012.
>> 
>> When will this ticket be available in the CF document? What needs to
>> be done? (And why does the ticket have 'low' priority?)
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Heiko
>> 
>> 
>> On 2012-07-18 07:52, Heiko Klein wrote:
>>> Rich,
>>> 
>>> it must have been the netcdf-java package where I have seen these
>>> standard-names. The description on the netcdf-java pages are outdated,
>>> still using formula_terms a and b. I just checked the code, and that is
>>> up to date working with the formula_term -array C(k).
>>> 
>>> It'll be good to have an official version. Thanks for picking this up
>>> again.
>>> 
>>> Heiko
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2012-07-17 17:13, Rich Signell wrote:
>>>> Heiko,
>>>> 
>>>> We worked with John Caron several years ago to get these into the CDM
>>>> in the NetCDF-Java library, so if you have g1 or g2 coordinates they
>>>> will work with codes that use NetCDF-java (like the Matlab NCTOOLBOX
>>>> and Unidata's IDV),  and I remember we drafted up some documentation
>>>> to  submit to CF, but looks like we dropped the ball.    I'll pick it
>>>> up again.
>>>> 
>>>> -Rich
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Heiko Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm currently working with ROMS ocean model files. The model uses a
>>>>> generalized ocean_s coordinate as defined by
>>>>> https://www.myroms.org/wiki/index.php/Vertical_S-coordinate .
>>>>> 
>>>>> The same page says that their s_coordinate is covered by standard_names
>>>>>   ocean_s_coordinate_g1
>>>>>   ocean_s_coordinate_g2
>>>>> and I believe I have seen at least the g1 case in a draft of a CF
>>>>> convention
>>>>> some month ago. Both cases are also implemented in the netcdf-java
>>>>> package
>>>>> with above standard_names:
>>>>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/reference/StandardCoordinateTransforms.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> But I cannot find any of those names any longer, neither in CF-1.6
>>>>> nor in
>>>>> the standard_names tables.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does somebody remember what happened to these vertical coordinates?
>>>>> According to the ROMS Wiki, the standard_names have been added in March
>>>>> 2009.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Heiko
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dr. Heiko Klein                   Norwegian Meteorological Institute
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