Hi Alex, Allyn, and all,
The conversation on this has skittered around a little... some questions
on an earlier mail are below.
>> The ticket does reference a formal extension to CF
>> [https://ice.txcorp.com/trac/modave/wiki/CFProposalGridspec].
>> Presumably, this is what users should reference for GridSpec
>> documentation. Is that correct,
> Yes.
I'm concerned about this as a solution once GridSpec becomes official -
since GridSpec may evolve, we need unambiguous versions of it, and the
cleanest way to do that is probably with separate, versioned documents.
Would it be possible to associate a versioned GridSpec document with the
next version of the CF standard?
The GridSpec version could either be 1) the same as CF, so it might
start at 1.7 and be updated with each CF release, or 2) have its own
version path, so the first official GridSpec version might be 1.0, and
it would only get updated when GridSpec changed. To me the latter is
preferable, since the changes to the rest of CF and GridSpec are
probably going to be pretty independent, but either approach is fine.
Another advantage of the latter approach is that we could put a version
on GridSpec and start using that immediately. I'm not sure who would
make the decision, but it does seem like a decision is needed on how to
proceed.
Best,
Cecelia
>> How will future governance be handled without that? Should we
>> consider the page as it stands CF version 1.6?
>>
>> Also, can the GridSpec convention only be expressed as a netCDF file?
> Yes it was written for netcdf. I'm assuming that anything that can be
> done in netcdf can be done in XML though I'm not a XML specialist.
>
> Best,
>
> --Alex
>> Are there other formats (such as XML) for the CF Conventions that
>> support GridSpec?
>>
>> Many thanks for your help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Allyn
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>> Email:allyn.treshansky at noaa.gov
>> Phone: +1 303-497-7734
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