Bonjour Alain,
Being new to the world of meteorological/oceangraphic data myself
recently, I had the same problem you have when reading the various
conventions available. Based upon discussions about this matter, and how
others are using and interpretating the conventions, I personally have
adopted a position whereby the term "should" is regarded as a mandatory
requirement. That is to say I interpret "should" as "must".
While I agree that the general definition of "should" would imply
something being optional, the general definition also implies a strong
sense of obligation. That is to say you must do something unless you
have a good reason not to, i.e. I should not kill anyone (I use this as
an example of how strongly "should" could be regarded as obligatory,
rather than my homicidal tendencies :-)
Hope this helps, though I am sure others will also comment.
Salut,
Glenn
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:31:11 +0200
From: "Mazurier Alain" <alain.mazurier at altran.com>
Subject: [CF-metadata] [FRANCE] Question about CF Convention
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Hi all,
I am new on this mailing list and I hope my question is not so obvious
My problem is with:
At the adress :
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/conformance/requirements-and-recommendations/1.
5/ I find
? 2.1 Filename
Requirements:
* Filename must have ".nc" suffix."
But If I read the CF documentation
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.5/cf-conventions-mul
ti.html I find
"2.1. Filename
NetCDF files should have the file name extension ".nc". "
For me there is a difference between "must" and "should"?.
If i have another suffix than nc, can i be CF compliant?
Best regards
Alain MAZURIER
Responsable Unit Technologique Logicielle
Received on Wed Aug 03 2011 - 09:18:55 BST
