Challenges

Wary of introducing XML-ism into netCDF

Perhaps have default namespaces for each convention

People like netCDF because there’s no namespace

not as elegant

alternatives for specifying LD - using ‘@’ to prefix incl. standard_name?

Governance of prefix namespace

falls under unidata?

governance of other namespace

Persistence of URIs -

injecting fragility

already exists - references to convention documentation

doi?