The final wording from the breakout meeting:

There will be occasions when a given CRS property value is duplicated in both a 
single-property grid mapping attribute and the crs_wkt attribute. In such cases 
the onus is on data producers to ensure that the property values are 
consistent. *If both crs_wkt and grid mapping attributes exist, the attributes 
must be the same and grid mapping parameters should always be completed as 
fully as possible. As such, information from either one (or both) may be read 
in by the user without needing to check both. However, in those situations 
where the two values of a given property are different, the CRS information 
cannot be interpreted accurately and users should inform the provider so the 
issue can be addressed.* ~~, then the value specified by the single-property 
attribute shall take precedence.~~ For example, if the semi-major axis length 
of the ellipsoid is defined by the grid mapping attribute semi_major_axis and 
also by the crs_wkt attribute (via the WKT SPHEROID[…​] element), *the value of 
this attribute cannot be interpreted accurately.*  ~~then the former, being the 
more specific attribute, takes precedence.~~ Naturally if the two values are 
equal then no ambiguity arises.



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