[CF-metadata] HDF netCDF merger?

[Karl E.Taylor]

Dear all,

I have heard that the following proposal was funded by NASA:

* Russell Rew (University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research/National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder,
Colo.): Merging the NetCDF and HDF5 Libraries to Achieve
Gains in Performance and Interoperability

Does this mean that in the future it will be possible to write netCDF files
efficiently on massively parallel machines?  Anyone know anything
about this and its implications for CF?

cheers,
Karl