Two components that I am particularly compelled to propose are:
- Validation tools for cloud optimized datasets (xref Tool for validating geo data/services moved to the cloud? - #7 by rabernat, but including both new datasets and migrated datasets). In a discussion with @rabernat a couple years ago, he pointed me to great_expectations as an example of this being done well in other fields.
- General support for the Pangeo ecosystem of tools including Xarray, Zarr