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Hi, I've made a first cut at an OGC Candidate Standard Specification for CF-netCDF Binary Encoding. It's on the GALEON wiki at: http://sites.google.com/site/galeonteam/Home/cf-netcdf-candidate-standard In outline form, the document has all the sections I believe will be needed. Some are just stubs at this point but the key sections of what will become the OGC core standard for CF-netCDF have been filled in verbatim with the text of the NASA Standards Process Group Standard for netCDF. http://www.esdswg.org/spg/rfc/esds-rfc-011/ESDS-RFC-011v1.00.pdf The result of this process will thus be a jointly recognized standard between NASA and the OGC. At this point, I am seeking input from all interested parties -- whether or not you are an OGC member. Beyond that, if you are interested in being part of the actual standards definition process, it will be extremely important participate in the OGC CF-netCDF working group which will be set up soon. That means that you have to be associated with an organization that is an OGC member. So this would be a good time to find out who the official OGC rep is for your organization and have the rep set you up with access to OGC working groups and documents on the OGC portal. I'd really like to have the working group up and running by the next OGC Technical Committee (TC) Meeting at the end of September and have the process pretty near completion by the following TC meeting in December. We can only make that kind of progress if we assemble a committed, active working group. Please seriously consider joining the effort. Let me know if you run into difficulties getting at the draft document or figuring out issues related to your organization's OGC membership. Many thanks. -- Ben
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