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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 <mcgin...@ucar.edu>
To: John Caron <ca...@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<ca...@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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