What is the data I/O protocol?
Certain standards of measurement must obtain if the connections between data sets are to be meaningful. Some of these apply to volume, weight, distance, spatial resolution, temperature, velocity, etc. — all the usual physical dimensions. Probably the easiest solution is to make everything metric, but this will be decided by the community of contributors. Other dimensions of data will be more biological, or methodological, affecting such matters as population samples, resolution and depth of data, frequency of measurements, taxonomic choices, statistical area boundaries, etc. The speed of data transmission is likely to be subject to standards. The method of spatial data management may be raster based or vector based, but it must either be consistent or be piped through appropriate translators. Conflicts in other dimensions of data will be discovered and resolved by the community, as well. A committee will be formed to propose draft resolutions to these conflicts, in the light of commun
