Information Dissemination Strategy

An Update

Presenter: Bruce Locke

Project Announcement

Report Re-Engineering program has been approved

includes:

deploy tools to automatically generate XML documents (includes reports)

deploy a secure FTP site for access by people and by machines

redesign all reports to XML standards and retire all CSV, EDI, and HTML documents

repackage report content into more informative documents

deploy some new documents (for example, generator output data)

selected features

full versioning of all automated documents

more granular security for report access

all XML

IT Standing Committee Meeting September 09, 2003

Scope and Schedule

Report Re-Engineering program approved July 15

program consists of 8 projects over 2 years

project management beginning for full project suite with 2 projects already in progress, AD and FRE

IT Standing Committee Meeting September 09, 2003

Decommission Production

Report Facilities

Outbound Report Management Phase

2

Generator Information Disclosure

Report Renewal (Public)

Bank EDI Replacement

Report Renewal (Confidential)

File Routing Enhancements

ODS Infrastructure

Automated Document

Progress to Date

Automated document standards stakeholdered and published (see IMO web site)

Automated Document System (ADS) designed, built, just entering testing and expected in service by late Fall

XML demonstrations to various stakeholdering groups in progress

File Routing Enhancements complete and in service in Sept 9 Release

IT Standing Committee Meeting September 09, 2003

Stakeholdering

technical interface standards with ITSC

will it be a secure FTP, secure shell, other protocol?

details of document access security granularity

document set (by subject?) priorities with MOSC

what should we work on first: price reports, energy reports, system status reports, settlement documents, invoices?

What document sets should we be defining?

for each document set, IMO proposes:

to invite participation and form focused market stakeholder groups rather than consume time in the standing committees

time commitment and stakeholder task schedule to be defined before focus group formed to ensure project progresses and that committed active stakeholders participate

IT Standing Committee Meeting September 09, 2003