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Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Proposed addition to CF principles: outside
conventions
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:39:13 -0700
From: Seth McGinnis <mcginnis at ucar.edu>
To: John Caron <caron at unidata.ucar.edu>
Hi John,
I'm generally in favor of this proposal. The value of standards lies in their
widespread adoption, so if a popular solution already exists, we should adopt
it and bolster both standards rather than creating yet another competing
option.
It also make sense to delegate the design of a convention to those communities
that needed it more urgently and therefore have focused more on it than the CF
community has.
Cheers,
--Seth McGinnis
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:56:02 -0700
John Caron<caron at unidata.ucar.edu> wrote:
>The following is being proposed to add to CF principles, and comments from all
>would be welcome:
>
>"CF may incorporate an outside convention into it when the following
>conditions hold:
>
> 1. The semantics of the convention are important to the CF community.
> 2. The convention is already in wide use by other communities, and the
> adoption by CF significantly helps other communities adopt CF.
> 3. The convention is not in conflict with existing CF standards.
> 4. In the case that the new convention overlaps existing CF
> conventions, software should be developed to detect inconsistencies
> and provide feedback to the data producer.
>
>"
>
>The current context is the proposal "Specification of Coordinate Reference
>System properties in Well-Known Text format" :
>
>https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/69
><https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/69#comment:31>
>
>however, the intention is for this principle to guide future CF proposals
>also.
>
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