[Esip-documentation] Strategic plan and ACDD

[Kenneth Casey]

Thanks.  I understand about the new standard applying to the enhanced  features.  I did not understand that one standard could not include both classic and enhanced.  That sounds to me like trouble in terms of getting people to adopt the standards. Do I now need to publish two versions of every NODC netCDF template? What if someone saves their data in a netCDF -4 enhanced file but doesn't actually use any enhanced features?

Ken

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> On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:14 PM, "Armstrong, Edward M (398M)" <Edward.M.Armstrong at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
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> Ken,
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> The "new" version will be extended to handle things like HDF5 groups.  I guess it could be written so the is usable in the netCDF3 environment, but there are some very specific things that will be built into ACDD 2.x . Perhaps at some in the future they will converge....
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>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Kenneth S. Casey - NOAA Federal wrote:
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>> Why do you need to finalize a classic version?  Can't the new extended netCDF version be written in such a way that it works with classic files too?  Maybe a few "if classic do this, if extended do that" constructs would be needed… but that has a better feel to me than having two different standards in development.  I can not volunteer, sorry.  
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>> Ken
>>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Ted Habermann <thabermann at hdfgroup.org> wrote:
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>>> Thanks to all of you that participated in the strategic plan discussion yesterday. The plan is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/10lKi88rReL0rF4WhZ8yEMabBoQTuALX-vu2VXBVokCo/edit#heading=h.1lkb0jjpy3xb. I think it is open for editing...
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>>> One question that came up in the discussion was the future of ACDD... We have agreed that this future involves two paths: a final netCDF Classic compliant version (1.2) and a new netCDF extended / HDF / ISO compliant version (2.0). Ed and I both expressed some interest in pursuing 2.0, but we still need someone to shepard 1.2 forward... Any volunteers?
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>>> Ted
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>> Kenneth S. Casey, Ph.D.
>> Technical Director
>> NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center
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