There's a subtle point here that I just got tripped up by (I wrote and then deleted a long but erroneous comment), which is that the first principle of self-description is talking about the *metadata* being self-describing, not the *entire file contents*. Is that correct?
Which is to say, in this sentence: "CF-netCDF metadata is designed to make each dataset self-describing, meaning that it should be interpretable without reference to resources outside itself," the word 'it' refers to 'metadata', not to 'dataset'. True? If so, it probably wouldn't hurt to call that out very explicitly and bluntly; I think it's likely to confuse more than just me. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/273#issuecomment-649672938 This list forwards relevant notifications from Github. It is distinct from [email protected], although if you do nothing, a subscription to the UCAR list will result in a subscription to this list. To unsubscribe from this list only, send a message to [email protected].
