Re: [galeon] WCS CF-netCDF profile document

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Roy,

This may be a nit-picky detail, but that's $700 billion, not $700 million, for 
the bailout we need to get this done.

-- Ben

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Roy Mendelssohn 
<Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>wrote:
But my impression is that others think that we should abandon the
CF-netCDF encoding spec. and ONLY be proposing CF-OPeNDAP.   Is that the
heart of the suggestion that's on the table in terms of the OPeNDAP part of
the discussion?

This is an interesting question, and it is related to the larger question
of whether it is better to transfer files as mime-types or better to have a
binary protocol to transfer the information, in particular if we envision
very large amounts of data being transferred.  I know the OOI people are
very concerned about this issue, in fact are pushing the idea of a modified
OPeNDAP that uses the Advanced Messaging Queueing Protocol (AMQP see
http://jira.amqp.org/confluence/display/AMQP/Advanced+Message+Queuing+Protocol) 
as
what gets put over the wire, a messaging protocol that is in heavy use in
the financial industry to transfer real-time their transaction data  (maybe
we can get a $700 million bailout also!).

Seriously, one downside of netcdf delivered as a mime-type is that you
can't stream the service - you have to hold the file in cache until it is
complete and then send the result.  OpeNDAP can be streamed, though not many
OpeNDAP servers do that.  John Caron implied that at the GO-ESSP meeting
that he had code that could stream netcdf-3, but that it would be unlikely
that netcdf4  (or hdf5) could be streamed.

Interesting discussion.

-Roy


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