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Add an initial list of BMI design principles #105

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Expand Up @@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ BMI is an element of the `CSDMS Workbench`_,
an integrated system of software tools, technologies, and standards
for building and coupling models.

BMI Design Principles
=====================

* Easy to implement. Preference goes to the implementer over the end user.
* Self describing.
* Common tasks are left up to a framework.
* Popeye Principle (“I am what I am”). BMI libraries just report about themselves.
* Language agnostic
* NOT intended to accommodate every model and use case.
* Intended for model coupling but not necessarily model-to-model coupling.
* A model can be a numerical software model but could also be a dataset.
* Does not inject itself into a model.
* Minimal but can be open to *extensions*.


*The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System
is supported by the National Science Foundation.*

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