Plans for two years and beyond are uncertain, but may include:

• In general, move successful netCDF-Java features into C-based APIs:
• Plug-in extension framework for C-based APIs to support reading other data formats through a common data model interface
• Automatic data packing using _Scale and _Offset attributes
• Read-only access through NcML, possibly via streaming communication with a no-configuration small-footprint Java service
• Support for additional HDF5 types, including references, to permit reading NPOESS data
• Read access to netCDF subsets requested by coordinate system bounding boxes
• Group support in classic format
• Addition of asynchronous I/O facilities for DAP and local access

2010 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > The Future of netCDF