290: Country – incorrect definition

Missing documentation in the XML Schema. The definition is incorrect. This should be “sovereign state” and not “country”. I can think of quite a few countries that are not states: Scotland, Wales, Greenland, Black.

283: Canonicalized Scheme URLs and XML Codelist file

FpML has been supporting a list of scheme values in the codelist format online. The proposal would be to keep the most recent version of each coding-scheme in a canonicalized URL pointing to an XML file. The most recent version of any one scheme could then be referenced by the cononicalized URL and XML file. … Continued

281: message sequence assumption

The FpML architecture should be specific that there is no assumption that message sequence is preserved over the transport. There is potential for disagreement in implementations over whether message sequence is preserved. In practise no enterprise bus preserves sequence.