Dear all,
Sorry for the deep silence on my end. I will provide some information
on the conventions and standard names committees, and the CF Governance
Panel next week.
If my schedule continues as it has these past few months, I'll have to
resign as chair before having accomplished anything, but I'm hopeful
that I'm emerging now from a considerable back-log of work.
cheers,
Karl
Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear Rich
>
>> I also would vote for Bert's original suggestion of attaching the
>> grid_mapping directly to
>> the coordinates that use that mapping.
> Can you explain why that seems better to you than (my) alternative of naming
> 2D projection coordinates in the grid_mapping variable instead of making them
> auxiliary coordinate variables? The reasons why I prefer this at present are
> that the grid_mapping attribute stays where it is, that it serves as a single
> place to find the information that defines the mappings, and that there is no
> redundancy. Perhaps other people have other ideas.
>
>> I'm wondering how we move forward with this issue. We formed a
>> CF-Conventions Committee, and would it be time to have the commmitee
>> "convene" and decide if and how this should be implemented?
> In the past, we have made decisions by consensus. The idea in the white paper
> is that this should still be so. That is, by public debate we should try to
> reach an agreement that everyone's happy with. It's better to do that, even
> though it is harder work, than vote on things. Majority decisions where there
> is a substantial minority should be uncommon.
>
> We are in limbo regarding the committees. If I understand correctly (I wasn't
> there), the WGCM agreed to the committees but has not chosen members for the
> CF panel. Karl generously volunteered to chair the conventions committee, so
> I think it's up to him to suggest how we should proceed (sorry, Karl!).
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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Received on Thu Nov 30 2006 - 11:50:25 GMT
