[galeon] status update

• To: CF-netCDF SWG <CF-NetCDF-1.0.SWG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: [galeon] status update
• From: Ben Domenico <Ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:24:54 -0700

Hi all,

Following up on Carl's congratulations note earlier in the week, I want to
let you know how the loose ends are being tied up for the two netcdf-related
specs approved by the OGC Technical Committee.  The main thing is that,
based on feedback from the OGC Naming Authority (NA),  I have edited the
parts of the documents that specify the HTTP URIs that will be used as
identifiers for the requirements, conformance tests, and netCDF-specific
definitions.   With that done, I submitted today a revised set of HTTP URIs
to the OGC NA.   Those are the only suggested edits that have been brought
to my attention.

In Carl's  earlier note, he mentioned that the remaining steps consist of
rows 44 through 52 in his checklist spreadsheet.  For some time, I avoided
looking at that spreadsheet, but finally I bit the bullet and have  pasted
those rows below.

*43 *Vote completes
*44 *Announcement to OGC Members (TCC )
*45 *Planning Committee Approval (TCC and PC)
*46 *SWG updates Change Request status for each CR processed (SWG)
*47 *TCC does final review of adopted standard (TCC)
*48 *Press release to announce new standard SWG and OGC (staff)
*49 *Schema processing (SWG and OGC staff)
*50 *Standard published (OGC staff)
*51 *Press release released (OGC staff)
*52 *Done. Congratulations!!

The acronyms are as follows.  TCC is the Technical Committee Chair (Carl);
PC is the OGC Planning Committee; SWG is us, the Standard Working Group.
The only  items left for us are helping with the press release, "updates to
Change Request status" and "schema processing."  I'm not aware of any change
requests and we have no schemae to process.   So, near as I can tell, except
for the press release, our work is complete these initial two specs and,
after a suitable sigh of relief, we can plunge into the next extension for
the CF conventions.

Reading over that last sentence, it sounds like a classic case of "famous
last words," but I'm going to chance it anyway. [?]

Have a good weekend.

-- Ben

PS I'm sending a copy of this to GALEON and to colleagues at work, a few of
 whom have asked about the remaining steps in the process.

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