OGC docs for adding CF-netCDF encoding format profile

• To: "Unidata GALEON" <galeon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, wcs.rwg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: OGC docs for adding CF-netCDF encoding format profile
• From: "Ben Domenico" <bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 20:06:16 -0600

Hi,

I made an effort to incorporate as much as possible of the comments I received on the 
earlier draft document that would have done away with the WCS list of "required 
supported formats."    The new approach is not so simple.  This one does the 
following:

-- "grandfathers" in the 5 original "required supported formats"
-- leaves in the option of supporting any additional format as long as one of the the 
"required supported formats" is required.
-- provides a mechanism for establishing an additional "required supported 
format" by getting a profile for the additional encoding format approved by the OGC 
TC
-- creates a WCS Annex E where approved WCS format profiles would be documented.

This is proposed in two OGC change request documents: 06-073 which contains the new 
wording for the WCS section on "required supported formats" and 06-074 which 
contains the proposed WCS Annex E with the CF-netCDF profile included.

As you can tell, this is not as simple as the earlier draft.  But then again, 
not much about WCS is simple.

For those of you who are OGC members, you can see 06-073 and 06-074 among the 
pending documents.  I have not had adequate time for proofreading these 
documents but I think I can still get corrections in tomorrow before the 
dreaded 3-week rule kicks in for the next TC meeting, so please let me know if 
you find any egregious errors.  Of course, the 3-week rule is there to allow 
for comments, so we can make changes in that time frame as well.

Thanks for your patience.
-- Ben

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: [WCS.RWG] OGC docs for adding CF-netCDF encoding format profile
    • From: John Evans