DSB Maintenance Iteration 17: Minutes (4 October 2023) - ConsumerDataStandardsAustralia/standards GitHub Wiki

Meeting Minutes

Release Plan

  • The MI16 Decision Proposal has been sent to the Chair for approval, it will result in v1.27.0 of the Standards when published.

Maintenance Iteration 17 Candidates

The issues listed below have been proposed as candidates for this iteration. The DSB encourages participants to review these and post comments for consideration in developing solution proposals.

NOTE: New actions from this call marked with ⚡

Consumer Experience:

  • None proposed

Security:

  • None proposed

Register:

  • None proposed

Banking:

Energy:

  • #587 - EnergyBillingDemandTransactionV2 - Measure Unit
    • Requires further offline discussion. ⚡
    • DSB is proposing to treat the introduction of a new field as a breaking change requiring a new version of the end point that wont have an obligation date assigned. ⚡
    • To provide greatest flexibility and avoid extra build for the November obligation date, implementers building to the new version are not required to build the old version.
    • DHs who are not affected by this change do not need to implement the new version until a deprecation date is set for the old version.
  • #613 - Time format change request for Energy Plan Data
    • Lengthy discussion on interpretation of time values and concern around proposal to introduce a new time standard.
    • Section 4.4 Unqualified Local Time in RFC3339 describes the limitations encountered in this issue and the reason it's not possible to be standards compliant.
    • DSB to consider options and advise the community. ⚡

Common:

  • None proposed

Schema:

  • None proposed

Errors:

NFRs:

  • None proposed

Documentation:

Other business

  • #610 - Addition of an (18 or over) Age Verification Flag
    • A discussion on this issue was requested however it is not considered to be a candidate of MI17 at this stage.
    • Merits of use cases for this value, legal implications and non repudiation of age verification were discussed.
    • DSB will consult with Treasury to determine whether introducing a value, if appropriate, would align with the Rules. ⚡

Next Steps

  • DSB will analyse the issues identified as candidates to propose a solution for industry consideration.