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

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

RF on Limited Terms

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

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