Joe Hamman

> Another way of putting it is that I think perhaps "chunk manifest" and "virtual concatenation of Zarr arrays" should be completely separable and orthogonal features. I've come around on...

@jbms - I have a few answers to your question of "why not use the kerchunk format": - Kerchunk represents the entire store as a single manifest, my position is...

I realized my last answer may have unintentionally come off as critical of the Kerchunk project. Apologies is it came across that way. Kerchunk (@martindurant) has done us all a...

Hi @MosGeo - there is a relevant discussion in https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/issues/154. tldr; there are a few efforts in this space including our product Arraylake ([versioning docs](https://docs.earthmover.io/concepts/version_control_system)) and Tensorstore/OctDB ([docs](https://google.github.io/tensorstore/kvstore/ocdbt/index.html#storage-format)).

I don't have a ton more to add to this discussion but just want to give a +1 to the idea of removing implicit groups from the spec. From an...

Perhaps it would be good to get the input from the rest of the @zarr-developers/implementation-council here. I'm curious how other implementations are handling implicit groups at this time.

closed by https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/pull/292?

👀 I'm very excited to see this moving forward! cc @TomNicholas (DataTree) and @freeman-lab / @katamartin (ndpyramid/maps)

Hi @percivall. I'm sorry this was dropped back in January. Can you outline the process that Zarr would need to go through in order to find standardization in OGC? There...

ping @rsignell-usgs who was looking for this issue.