Not sure I was asked to take on the role of moderator but if there are no 
objections I'll do it.

CF was initially created for gridded data. The cf_role attribute was added when 
CF was extended to deal with discrete sampling geometries. @LorenzoCorgnati is 
asking the question whether gridded data should be explicitly annotated through 
the addition of cf_role='grid_id' or should the existing practice of simply 
leaving the cf_role attribute out continue. I feel inclusion is possibly better 
practice, but the existing practice has the advantage of backward compatability 
- so much so that if a value of  'grid_id' is allowed then this must be 
considered equivalent to the cf_role attribute being omitted.

Anyone any thoughts?

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