APE7 - A plan for NDData

This is ready for review. Comments are solicited until **Friday 14th November** after which a vote will be taken on whether to accept or reject this APE.

(note, this has been renamed to APE7 since there is already an APE6 proposed in #7)
I agree it can be included as a mix-in. The IO registry is such that you can override the readers/writers with any that you defined.