[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (ENERGYINTEROP-472) Re-factoringand Normalization Collector

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Ed Koch  commented on ENERGYINTEROP-472:
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I'm going to re-post a previous diatribe on the power units issue. Personally I thnk it is overkill to add a units desigantor to differentiate between kW and mW. Having somehting that differentiates between kWh and kW makes sense, but not kW and MW.  We would be better off and make the programmers lives much simpler if we simply fixed the power units and let them decide how to move the decimal place. The alternative is to add a units field that the programmer potetially has to dig out of some far away market context artifact that may not even be part of the same message and then based upon that information decide if he has to move the decimal place or not. Really?


Specifying units in the market context has a couple of potential issues:

-	I doubt we want to send the market context with every signal.  I see no harm in sending a simple currency or power units indicator with every signal since that is all we really need.  I do see issues of having to try and parse this information out of some other transaction and/or part of the schema when it should be a very simple piece of information.

- Right now in the Alliance we are not requiring the simple VEN devices to deal with the market context schemas.  I would really hate to have to force them to do that simply to get a units designator for their signals.

Toby- Can you send me an example of a "market context"  that contains the currency specification. 





> Re-factoring and Normalization Collector
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>
>                 Key: ENERGYINTEROP-472
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ENERGYINTEROP-472
>             Project: OASIS Energy Interoperation TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Toby Considine
>            Assignee: William Cox
>
> Now that the Information is stable, need to review how factoring and normalization can be applied. Common thread in many issues.

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