[Nexus] Status of NAPI

[Pete Jemian]

On 6/21/2015 3:23 PM, Osborn, Raymond wrote:
> I had understood that there were plans to create a light version of the
> NAPI, which was only dependent on HDF5.

Checking through the online minutes of the 2014 and 2012 NIAC meetings, 
there was no mention of a light version of the NAPI, only (2012)  this 
question:

MK: Can we put NAPI into maintenance mode?

The text in the documentation describing that the NAPI has been "frozen:

   http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/napi.html

was entered in the manual here:

https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/commit/8565bda01bb79b72cd07c875efe3a204b9360a2b

and here

https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/commit/9d8cbac2bbc091a41569cce882f05b40965f1ce6

What I don't see is a NIAC agreement for this change of text.  Perhaps 
this was discussed (and agreed) in the tech committee teleconferences. 
Perhaps "freezing the NAPI" was discussed at a NIAC meeting.

Regardless of the history now, which seems undocumented, do the first 
three paragraphs on the NAPI page of the manual represent NIAC's opinion 
of the current status of the NAPI?

http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/napi.html

Pete

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