REVIEWER: Roger Unwin

Does the summary material clearly explain the work done? Is there enough context to understand the work done?

 Yes.

How does this work relate to your work and your subsystem? What ideas or tools can you apply to your work?

I am hesitant to see this utilized within my part of the puzzle, as my part of the puzzle does not require the modification on netCDF files, and utilization of this protol as a transport mechanism would introduce unnecessary inefficiencies due to the overhead of disassembling/reassembling as well as the packet overhead associated with transporting the sub parts as a swarm.

What issues in the content (Word, Jira, code) should be addressed, either now or sometime?

No issues are readily apparent to me.

What interesting insights, suggestions, or thoughts can you offer for the developer to consider?

I can appreciate that there will be instances where this protocol can offer performance optimizations, such as the case where either filtering or translation needs to be applied to the underlying file where the filtering/translation can occur independent of the other parts of the file.  This protocol would allow the file to be broken up, travel as a swarm, and be concurrently processed as opposed to keeping the file as a single entity, and processing it linearly as a whole.  Care must be taken in using this protocol for all manipulations/movements of files without weighing the costs/benefits of the overhead that it introduces.