This went out late last night. I wanted to be sure you all were kept in the
loop. This work can greatly increase the value of oBIX, and ups the ante for
autonomous agents in building systems...

tc

________________________________ "A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is
but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday." -- Jonathan Swift

________________________________ Toby Considine Chair, OASIS oBIX TC Facilities Technology Office University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC

Email: Toby.Considine@ unc.edu<mailto:Toby...@fac.unc.edu> Phone: (919)962-9073 http://www.oasis-open.org blog: www.NewDaedalus.com

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: William Cox
<wtc...@coxsoftwarearchitects.com<mailto:wtc...@coxsoftwarearchitects.com>> Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:51 PM Subject: [smartgrid-discuss] Draft charter for proposed OASIS Energy
Interoperation Technical Committee To:
smar...@lists.oasis-open.org<mailto:smar...@lists.oasis-open.org> Cc: Mary Ann Piette <MAPi...@lbl.gov<mailto:MAPi...@lbl.gov>> Please find attached the draft charter for the proposed OASIS Energy
Interoperation Technical Committee. I've attached a PDF, OpenDocument, and Word
versions, all with line numbers for ease of discussion and review.

We invite you to comment on this list and to determine your interest in joining
this work - please contact me directly if you would like to be listed as a
supporter.

This proposal is being posted to smartgrid-discuss for (guess what!) discussion
and review. The intent of the drafting group is to revise this draft after a
comment period, and then submit the revised charter to the OASIS' Technical
Committee process,.

The core work of the TC is defining XML and Web services interactions for
so-called Automated Demand Response, growing out of work at the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory Demand Response Research Center led by Mary Ann
Piette, who is the convener of the proposed TC. This specific proposal comes
from the context of many discussions in and related to the OpenADR Technical
Advisory Group, GridWise Architecture Council, Grid-Interop, the NIST Smart Grid
project, GridEcon (a conference in March on the economics of the Smart Grid -
http://www.gridecon.com/ ) and many other places.

The LBNL OpenADR body of work is being extended through two
organizations/entities being created: this proposed OASIS Technical Committee
and a proposed UCAIug OpenADR Task Force. In this innovative collaboration, the
UCAIug, whose members are largely utilities and their suppliers, we will focus
requirements, goals, data models and comments through UCAIug, involving their
membership.

If you're not familiar with OASIS Technical Committee Charters, the statement of
purpose is section (1)(b), the scope is section (1)(c), and identification of
similar or applicable work is section (2)(a).

As usual as charters evolve, the list of supporters is empty in this public
discussion draft, and the list of deliverables and timeline is not included --
the next version will have those sections completed. Again, if you would like to
join this work as a supporter and member of the technical committee, let us
know.

Collaboration with other groups of stakeholders is actively being sought; please
contact me for how to get involved. Other stakeholders include energy market
makers, Independent System Operators (such as those in California, Texas, New
England, the Midwest, etc), and policy and regulatory groups. For more details,
see the draft charter -- and step forward so we can make this interoperation
effort both broad and effective.

Thanks!

bill cox

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