[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (WSCALENDAR-224) Ws-Calendar looksto be a terrific advance for the smart grid and providing ways for users touse only what they need without having to understand all of Ws-Calendar.

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Ws-Calendar looks to be a terrific advance for the smart grid and providing ways for users to use only what they need without having to understand all of Ws-Calendar.
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                 Key: WSCALENDAR-224
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/WSCALENDAR-224
             Project: OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Edward Cazalet 
            Assignee: Toby Considine


The capability of WS-calendar to take all of the parameters of an energy product and allocate the parameters to intervals and gluons is extremely useful in EMIX and EI.  Carrying a price and/or quantity along with a start time and a pointer to a gluon makes for a simple package. A gluon can point to another gluon which can carry parameters that very less frequently.  

And the link to conventional calendaring technology is also a big  plus for interoperability, especially between the grid and customers.  

However, there is a lot in ws-calendar that is not currently useful to energy markets.  If a way can be found for EMIX and EI to expose only that of WS-Calendar that is needed by energy markets it would open up WS-Calendar, EMIX and EI to more users.  And if the XML schemas based on WS-Calander can be simplified, (fewer layers) again that would be helpful.

I started out as an advocate for WS-Calendar, then I turned a skeptic when faced with the complexity including strange terms like gluon and a strange use of the term interval.  I am now a supporter but simplification would help bring along others more quickly and  expand its proper use in energy and the smart grid.

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