Hi,
We're happy to report that the Open Geospatial Consortium, an
"international industry consortium of 468 companies, government agencies
and universities participating in a consensus process to develop
publicly available interface standards", has adopted the enhanced data
model of netCDF-4 as a standard:
http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressrelease/1697
Thanks to the OGC CF-NetCDF-1.0 Standards Working Group, led by Ben
Domenico, for their work in getting approval of this standard!
--Russ