On Jul 2, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Doug Lindholm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If people are interested in reviving the OPeNDAP server-side functions
> working group, I'd help out. If nothing else, could we revive that mailing
> list instead of perpetuating this "nco" thread on the thredds list?
>
> In addition to the KISS principle, I'm also a big fan of standards. OPeNDAP
> (with DAP2) has already cracked that nut, so that is where I would prefer to
> start. I think there is a lot of low hanging fruit (the first 20% of the 80%)
> that would be trivial for service providers to implement once we have a
> standard syntax. I believe in an evolutionary design approach based on use
> cases. That approach may lead to less stable APIs in the beginning, but it
> tends to be much more fruitful and usable than "big design up front". It
> sounds like many of us already have an API that "works", and plenty of use
> cases, so I think we could make a lot of progress evolving some common APIs.
>
> Doug
>
All good ideas.
-Roy
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