Meeting notes
12 participants.
@gregtucker reminded us of the BMI governance document, emphasizing how we can move forward with consensus.
Scott Peckham presented his work on the concept of variable roles in BMI. This addition to BMI was proposed to address how models in the NOAA NextGen framework could be serialized and checkpointed.
Scott’s presentation spawned a lively discussion on what would constitute an extension to BMI. (See the working document in this post.)
@gregtucker brought the discussion back to what should be in BMI v3.0. It was nicely summarized by @Nels:
Getting mechanics for supporting generic extensions first would allow some significant compatibility and room to explore
To this end, @Nels and @PhilMiller volunteered to start scoping out a technical specification for BMI extensions. They’ll present their work at the next meeting.
The next BMI Council meeting will be in August.