NetCDF Subset timeSeries data type axis order

[dblodgett-usgs]

Maybe I'm missing something, but is there no way to have (time,feature_id) axis order in a timeSeries feature type NetCDF-DSG file? I can only get the point featureType to work in THREDDS or toolsUI if I have (feature_id,time) I would prefer to have time be the most rapidly varying dimension and would like to be able to aggregate along the time dimension -- which I think requires time to be the first dimension as in streamflow(time,feature_id).

There is a partial solution -- to chunk the data and counter the axis order, but I can't aggregate files over time with that approach.

I see that the CF spec has the axis order as data(i,o) but is that supposed to be strictly that axis order? I see some text at the end of H.2. that seems to indicate that the order shouldn't be strictly enforced? Either the instance (station) or the element (time) dimension may optionally be the netCDF unlimited dimension. That seems to indicate that either dimension could be the outer dimension... right?