Dear Daniel

Thanks for your responses and comments. Answers to a few questions:

* Yes, I think it would be fine to include Charlie's material on flattening and 
dismembering, except for the final paragraph about implementations, which isn't 
essential to the convention.

* Including a proper diagram would be unprecedented, I agree, but I don't know 
a reason not to. Actually there are some tables which are like diagrams in 
chapter 9 - they used to be in colour, and were prettier like that.

* If you're sure you want to put your definitions in ch01, then I'd suggest 
keeping them together all there, rather than interleaving them with other 
definitions, and give them a heading in ch01 indicating that they are relevant 
to groups. You could provide a reference to the later chapter on groups, and a 
backwards reference from there to the definitions. One reason for my original 
comment is that the considerable number of these group-related definitions, 
which are used only in one place in the document, seems unbalanced to me with 
respect to the existing definitions in ch01, which are used in multiple places.

* Yes, I think it's OK to say that paths are like Unix paths. I must have 
missed that. Not every CF-netCDF user is a user of Unix, though, so it may 
still be useful to spell it out a bit.

* It'll be interesting to hear Charlie's view on the lateral search.

I look forward to the next version. Thanks for your work.

Cheers

Jonathan


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