[CF-metadata] CF upgrade to netCDF variable names

From: Bryan Lawrence <bryan.lawrence>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:27:08 +0000

Hi John

In the spirit of CF being *constrained* netCDF, it seems that we wouldn't,
unless we had a specific use case ... do you?

Cheers
Bryan


On 13 January 2014 18:54, <john.graybeal at marinexplore.com> wrote:

> As netCDF is growing to allow _at_, +, hyphen, and period in
> variable/dimension/attribute names, is there any likelihood CF will grow to
> allow some or all of those characters?
>
> I seem to recall some tools have conflicts with some of those characters
> (aside from them being non-conformant). But consistency and flexibility
> would be nice.
>
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