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Supplement number 20 to the 2000 ISDA Definitions (http://www.isda.org/cgi-bin/_isdadocsdownload/download.asp?DownloadID=163) incorporated the ISDA Settlement Matrix into the 2000 Definitions. This removed the need to specify certain terms within each confirmation since they would be incorporated by virtue of referencing the ISDA Settlement Matrix. As a result it is proposed that certain schema constraints are relaxed to … Continued

All the message types should be in pre-trade, trade-exec, or post-trade. Recent changes have broken this. Messages have been added in the wrong location: * CancelTradeCashFlows should be in post-trade * TraceCashflowsAsserted should be in post-trade * TradeCashflowsMatchResult should be in post-trade * PositionReport should be in post-trade * RequestValuationReport should be in post-trade * … Continued

Version Identification is required in order to support unambiguous and correct automation of business processes Please review file “fpml-doc-4-2.xsd” in branch “choreography”

At present there is a great deal of inconsistent token usage, which is most evident in the area of token usage to identify trades Marc Gratacos and Andrew Jacobs are aware of this issue, and are working on it, but this needs to be brought to a rapid conclusion in order that the user community … Continued

Schema commonly uses xsd:restriction for “no-op” where content is restricted out, and them restored, providing no value to the content model produced, and causing additional difficulty for software tools and our user community Please review the file “fpml-msg-4-2.xsd” in the “choreography” branch on the FpML Subversion Server where I have derived the current content model … Continued

Duplication of content model

Duplication of content model

We would like the capFloor product to be extended to include the existing earlyTerminationProvision element to allow early termination provisions to be captured on caps/floors. An optional earlyTerminationProvision element of type EarlyTerminationProvision should be added to the CapFloor complex type. … … … … Regards Guy Gurden

Were looking to use the inflation scheme definitions (the ones published in http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/inflation-index-description-1-0.xml). We were reconciling these against the index descriptions defined in Section 1.12 of the 2006 ISDA Inflation Derivatives Definitions (see http://www.isda.org/cgi-bin/_isdadocsdownload/download.asp?DownloadID=158) and noticed some anomalies that wed like to get corrected: 1. EUR-EXT-CPI The description (EUR Excluding Tobacco-Non-revised Consumer Price) is missing … Continued

I cannot determine the version of a message schema from a message. In the above example the version attribute says it is “4-2”, but I cannot determine which 4-2 it is. For example it could be any of: 4-2TR 4-2LCWD 4-2WD1 4-2WD2 4-2WD3 This is important as you need to know what to validate against. … Continued