Hi @erget, Thanks for highlighting these concerns. I agree with them. I guess I was thinking that the UGRID community is more integrated into the CF community than, say, the CRS-WKT community. In the latter example, we don't claim any influence on the "other" community, don't specify a CRS-WKT version, and have [carefully instructed the user of a dataset on what to expect]( https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/pull/282/files?short_path=0eab4e8#diff-0eab4e85fe4c323f70ce4bce0229dbe6).
I checked back to [Trac ticket 171](https://cf-trac.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/171), and there is not really an in depth discussion there, nor is there here other than on these governance rules. These concerns were discussed very carefully for the CRS-WKT case, and should be given more thought here, as well. The CRS-WKT case is simpler, as it is more self contained. There are, however, many aspects of CF which, if changed, could affect UGRID. Perhaps the [recent proposal for a domain variable](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/301) could be one, for example. It would be great to hear from some folks who work on UGRID. I would like to see the two conventions evolve simultaneously, but also do not want to see the delay of new CF features that are needed by user communities that have no interest in UGRID. It should be noted that if UGRID was formally moved into CF (e.g. as a new chapter 10), then all of this governance stuff goes away. I don't know if this has been discussed as an option elsewhere, but it should be stated in this issue why that's not desirable (if that is indeed the case). Thanks, David -- 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/153#issuecomment-702597573 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].
