(PR) 30-day Public Review for EMIX Committee Note Drafts

[chet.ensign@oasis-open.org]

The OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange (EMIX) TC [1] members have recently approved six Committee Note Drafts (CNDs) and submitted these drafts for 30-day public review:

EMIX Overview Version 1.0
Committee Note Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
12 October 2011

EMIX 1.0 and the OASIS Smart Grid Suite of Standards
Committee Note Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
13 October 2011

Retail Block & Tier Prices using EMIX 1.0
Committee Note Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
13 October 2011

Using EMIX 1.0 to support Transactive Energy Markets
Committee Note Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
30 September 2011

Transactive Energy Market Information Exchange (TeMIX) using EMIX 1.0
Committee Note Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
13 October 2011

TEMIX, a transactive profile of EMIX 1.0
Committee Note Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
30 September 2011

Specification Overview:
This group of Committee Specification Drafts explain what EMIX is, what it can do, and how it works with other specifications and standards. The goal of the Technical Commitee is to produce brief, focused Notes explaining applications, addressing technical issues, and providing examples for the use of EMIX.

This group of six is entering the Public Review process together. Three Note Drafts address general and technical issues:

* EMIX Overview Version 1.0

* EMIX 1.0 and the OASIS Smart Grid Suite of Standards

* Retail Block & Tier Prices using EMIX 1.0

and three Note Drafts address the use of EMIX in Transactive Energy Markets in the broad sense, and a brief and a longer Note Draft describing the restricted profile TEMIX:

* Using EMIX 1.0 to support Transactive Energy Markets

* Transactive Energy Market Information Exchange (TeMIX) using EMIX 1.0

* TEMIX, a Transactive Profile of EMIX 1.0

When providing review comments, please use the line numbers in the respective PDFs for each Note Draft.

TC Description :
OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange is now in its fourth Public Review. As that work is nearly completed, the Technical Committee is working on roughly a dozen Technical Notes.

The purpose of these notes is to provide an overview and understanding of EMIX.

Notes in process describe the relationship with OpenADR and Energy Interoperation, the Transactive Energy Markets approach that motivated several TC members, answer questions about the technical application of EMIX, such as the _expression_ of Block & Tier prices, the use of and relationship of EMIX with facility automation systems including the ZigBee Smart Energy Profile, the description of Ancillary Services products, and relationships and mapping to and from IEC and other standards.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 1 November 2011 and ends 30 November 2011.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The Committee Note Documents are available in the ZIP distribution files at the following URIs:

EMIX Overview Version 1.0
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44171/emix-over-v1.0-cnprd01.zip

EMIX 1.0 and the OASIS Smart Grid Suite of Standards
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44170/emix-oasis-v1.0-cnprd01.zip

Retail Block & Tier Prices using EMIX 1.0
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44168/emix-block-v1.0-cnprd01.zip

Using EMIX 1.0 to support Transactive Energy Markets
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44174/emix-trans-v1.0-cnprd01.zip

Transactive Energy Market Information Exchange (TeMIX) using EMIX 1.0
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44172/emix-temix-v1.0-cnprd01.zip

TEMIX, a transactive profile of EMIX 1.0
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44173/emix-temixbrief-v1.0-cnprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange (eMIX) TC may be found at the TC's public home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emix/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=emix

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emix-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of these EMIX Committee Note Drafts, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange (eMIX) TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emix/

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emix/ipr.php
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.3
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Best Regards,

/chet
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Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
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