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Subject: Request for EMIX members to comment on WS-Calendar
I recommend approaching it through the white paper before the spec. The document talks from the perspective of the schedule, because this is a schedule spec. With two way relationships in the UML, one can, of course, grab the spec anywhere and shake it so one's favorite part is on top... The spec reaches for ways to align service oriented (which means results oriented rather than process oriented) requests between domains. As such, it gives examples from all sides, from energy to enterprise to facilities. Just remember, all examples are about how it *could* be used. Actual use, and actual conformance, will come from the specifications that build upon it, including EMIX and Energy Interoperation / OpenADR. Our current conversations in EMIX have price and product looking like a gluon, able to exist separately, but also able to associate with and influence a WS-Calendar sequence. A calendar gluon establishes baseline which is inherited across a sequence, but allows local (to each interval) overrides. In EMIX, those inherited but override-able elements might include Price, Quantity, Duration, et al. The gluon also can set the performance time / date for the entire sequence, which may be tied to a sequence other than the "first" interval. This addresses use cases with ramp times, from DR in commercial buildings to 3 part bids in certain ISO markets under a common information model. I emphasize again, this is the schedule; it is not Scheduling. Scheduling is its own black art, that varies by domain, vendor, and market segment. WS-Calendar communicates the outcome of scheduling. It could be used to communicate inputs into scheduling. [I guess, offering DR and buying DR are all inputs into Scheduling...] WS-Calendar, though makes no statement about scheduling. tc "If something is not worth doing, it`s not worth doing well" - Peter Drucker Toby Considine TC9, Inc TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar TC Editor: EMIX, EnergyInterop U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee Email: Toby.Considine@gmail.com Phone: (919)619-2104 http://www.tcnine.com/ blog: www.NewDaedalus.com -----Original Message----- From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 9:13 PM To: members@lists.oasis-open.org; tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org Cc: ws-calendar@lists.oasis-open.org; OASIS TAB Subject: [ws-calendar] Public Review of WS-Calendar v1.0 and Conceptual Overview of WS-Calendar To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists: The OASIS WS-Calendar TC has recently approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved them for public review: WS-Calendar Version 1.0 Conceptual Overview of WS-Calendar CD01 - Understanding inheritance using the semantic elements of web services The WS-Calendar specification adapts the existing specifications for calendaring and apply them to a new specification for how schedule and event information is passed between and within services. The standard adopts the semantics and vocabulary of iCalendar for application to the completion of web service contracts. WS Calendar builds on work done and ongoing in The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect), which works to increase interoperation between calendaring systems, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The specification describes how to specify a sequence of services, how to schedule them, and how to invoke them. The specification was developed to support use cases in smart grids and smart energy, but it supports any sort of coordinated activities between domains. The committee explicitly considered coordination between energy coordination, enterprise systems, building systems, and financial markets. The specification also defines an inheritance approach wherein information common to many time intervals is specified for an entire sequence, while supporting over-rides within any time interval. The committee is simultaneously releasing white paper for public review. The white paper provides a conceptual overview of the specification and its use. The committee recommends those encountering WS-Calendar for the first time to read the white paper before reviewing the specification. The committee anticipates that the primary use for the specifications is inclusion in other specifications, providing a common mechanism to solve coordination communications. Technical committees currently planning to incorporate WS-Calendar include the OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange TC (EMIX), the OASIS Energy Interoperation TC (EnergyInterop), and the OASIS Open Building Information Exchange TC (oBIX). The committee plans to submit the new semantic elements of Interval and Sequence, as well as the new inter-object Temporal Relations to the IETF for inclusion in iCalendar at a later time. The public review starts today, 24 September 2010, and ends 23 November 2010. 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