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> Does that make a difference? In aiding understanding, it helps. If you tell me that "there is an effort to establish X as an OGC [binary] encoding standard, similar to Y" it can help me understand what that means about X if I come to learn how Y is treated. For instance, your mention of KML immediately triggers the question, "does this mean that if you are successful in your initiative the future evolution of the CF-netCDF standard will be subject to the approval of the OGC membership?" Max ________________________________ From: bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben Domenico Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:19 PM To: Max Martinez Cc: Peter Baumann; Unidata Techies; Unidata GALEON; wcs-2.0.swg Subject: Re: [WCS-2.0.swg] CF-netCDF standards initiatives Good question, Max. To be honest, I'm not sure whether this would be the first of its kind. When the approach was suggested by OGC staff, the precedent most often mentioned was something to the effect that CF-netCDF would be for binary encoding the equivalent of what KML is for XML encoding -- an existing de facto standard with a large well-established community of practice where both communities would be better off with formal de jure recognition. (In the case of netCDF, it actually is a de jure standard in the NASA and NOAA standards realms.) I've alway thought of JPEG2000 as a binary encoding format, so, at one time, I thought that was a precedent and looked upon JP2K and JPIP as being similar to netCDF and OPeNDAP in our user community. But you are the expert on JP2K and, from what I can tell, OGC has really only standardized the use of GML in JP2K and JPIP. So, it may well be this would be the first OGC standard for binary encoding. Perhaps others are aware of precedents. Does that make a difference? -- Ben On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Max Martinez <Max.Martinez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ben, What exactly is an "OGC binary encoding standard"? Is CF-netCDF attempting to be the first of its kind or are there other examples? Max ________________________________ From: wcs-2.0.swg-bounces+max.martinez=erdas.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wcs-2.0.swg-bounces+max.martinez <mailto:wcs-2.0.swg-bounces%2Bmax.martinez> =erdas.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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