Dear all
I appreciate this thoughtful discussion and I agree with @roy-lowry that it's 
important to make the right choices carefully. I am one of those who would 
object to this proposed standard name change on the grounds already stated! 
While I'm generally against redundancy, I think the bad sort of redundancy 
occurs when things are said in two rather different ways that can be 
inconsistent without its being obvious. It is a less dangerous sort of 
redundancy when a given piece of information is repeated _exactly_ the same. 
Therefore I think it wouldn't be bad if the CF `biological_taxon_name` and 
Darwin Core `scientificName` were both attached to a data variable with 
_exactly_ the same value. This is easy to check automatically for consistency, 
by eye or by machine.
Jonathan

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