Late Breaking Changes

I’m not going to send you a new EMIX tonight

 

I have been trying to tighten up some confusing references (while thinking in my mind “Who wrote this!?”) to WS-Calendar

 

If we have time, we can discuss:

 

Section 2.4, in which the use of WS-Calendar is introduced:

 
Time and Schedules as part of EMIX
Time is an important component of energy product transactions. A product produced in one interval of time may have to be stored or may not be able to be stored for a later interval of time. Thus the same product in different intervals of time may have difference prices. EMIX uses WS-Calendar to to apply prices and products to time intervals. 

WS-Calendar defines a mechanism to apply a schedule to a sequence of time intervals. WS-Calendar further defines how to use inheritance to apply a single information model to each interval in the sequence, allowing elements of that information model to be over ridden within any given interval. WS-Calendar. WS-Calendar also defines a schedule entry point, defining how specific performance can be contracted and scheduled. 

This document assumes that the reader has a clear understanding of WS-Calendar and its interfaces. The non-normative appendices of the WS-Calendar specification are a good place to start.

 

 

Section 4.1, in which inheritance is mentioned

 
Attribute Inheritance in EMIX
EMIX uses WS-Calendar to associate a Product with a Sequence of Intervals. The EMIX Product acts as a Calendar Gluon. If needed, Calendar Gluons / Products can be recursive, enabling attribute inheritance through a chain of Calendar Gluons. In EMIX, this pattern defines how an external contract can establish price and intervals atop an invariant EMIX object.

For a fuller discussion, see [WS-Calendar]

 

Question: Should we distinguish between an Interval that has a Price, an Interval that has a Quantity, and one that has Both? The first two are types of offers, the last is a contract or records the sale.

 

 

We need some wider discussion of Inheritance

 

Also, I have moved the discourse on electrical variables to Appendix B.

 

tc

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” -- Upton Sinclair. 

Toby Considine
TC9, Inc

OASIS Technical Advisory Board
TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar

TC Editor: EMIX, EnergyInterop

U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee

  

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