[CF-metadata] proposed rules for changes to CF conventions

[John Caron]

Karl Taylor wrote:
> 
> 3) Producing a netCDF file that includes a proposed change may not be 
> entirely trivial, and I fear it might hold up the process.  Whose 
> responsibility will it be to do this?  Some ideas might be proposed by 
> individuals who have never actually written any code that makes calls to 
> the netCDF library.  

Creating CDL (and running it through ncgen) should be easy enough, possibly with help from the netcdfgroup. But your new wording seems fine to me.

> 
> 6) Do we have any guarantees that those expected to test proposed 
> changes using the CF checker and libcf will have the resources (i.e., 
> time) to do this in a reasonable time frame?

I think there are really no guarantees. But if a proposal cant eventually attract 2 implementations, seems like theres a problem.