Final Agenda for July SPG meeting:

  • 10:00 Introductions
  • 10:05 SPG background - Rich Ullman
  • 10:15 WMS Review update - Allan Doyle
  • 10:30 HDF5 & HDF5-EOS update - Helen Conover
  • 10:45 HDF5 - Elena Pourmal
  • 11:00 SWEET - Rob Raskin
  • 11:30 ESMF Chris Hill
  • 12:00 1:00 lunch
  • 1:00 Marine Geoscience Data Management System Bob Arko
  • 1:30 International Institute for Climate and Society Benno Blumenthal
  • 2:00 NetCDF -- Ben Domenico
  • 2:30 FGDC Standards Lessons Learned Bill Tolar
  • 3:00 Process Issues
    • Does there need to be relatively quick finality to reviewing a spec? How long before getting enough operational reviews (WMS)?
    • What is overwhelming positive response to a review? How many reviews?
    • How to improve the number of reviews we get
    • Role of community leader for standards process approval how important is the community leader?
    • Clarify role of RFC author
    • Clarify role of community leader
    • Names of email lists - Name of RFCs vs RFC email lists. ESE-RFC-00x vs SPG-RFC-00x vs NES-RFC-00x (NES stands for NASA Earth Science)
  • 4:00 SPG Goals for the year ALL
    • Funding needed to fund the community leader to enable leader to fund RFC editor and facilitate reviews.