@ngalbraith regarding the `references` attribute, I went back and checked 
[Appendix 
A](http://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/cf-conventions.html#attribute-appendix)
 and was relieved to see it's valid as both a global and variable attribute.  I 
don't know if there might still be software issues as a result or not, but I 
think we're ok in terms of the by the book rules for that, hopefully.  The IOOS 
Compliance Checker 
[4.3.2](https://github.com/ioos/compliance-checker/releases/tag/4.3.2) now 
checks attributes against the rules in this appendix, so if we weren't, our 
metadata profile would be failing our own checker, which isn't great.

We do suggest data providers add an IOOS label to the `Conventions` attribute 
(e.g. `Conventions = "CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3, IOOS-1.2"`) in our profile,  so I think 
we're good there as well.

@GeyerB @japamment I noticed there's been a lot of traffic on the discuss repo 
over the past week accepting new standard names, I just wanted to check that 
this issue and the list of new names in the [comment 
above](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/216#issuecomment-565064929)
 are on your radar and can be approved to be added to Version 71 due out soon.  
We would very much appreciate it.  

Many thanks!



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