For me, Ryan's suggestion of a cf-prefix on attributes would be too large a 
break in backwards-compatibility; I don't think I could support it.  Karl's 
suggestion of listing cf attributes somewhere seems more reasonable.  Though 
maybe it would be better to put it in a separate global attribute rather than 
in Conventions, which could be a list of multlple conventions?

I also worry about a list of every CF attribute getting really long and being 
fragile to changes.  What if instead of specific attributes, there was a 
controlled vocabulary of concepts or elements to list, so you'd have something 
like `cf-elements = "bounds, climatology, flags, mapping, stdname"`?

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