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I have a portfolio that covers both N5 and KLB, let me know how I can help.

My current expectation is that the N5 format will become deprecated and that N5 will remain as an API.

As for the future of KLB, I'm doing some editing to add some compression schemes to it. However, I am also wondering what the advantages are versus BLOSC contiguous frames:
https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc2/blob/master/README_CFRAME_FORMAT.rst