526: Standardize payment and premium structures.

Modeling change recommendation to standardize payment and premium structures. For the option premiums, this will be achieved by fully implement the generic model. For other payment types, we will migrate to the content model of SimplePayment.

523: The scope of preconditions needs to be clarified

Feedback from Harry: The explanation of how preconditions for validation rules are evaluated. The following text needs to be revised: “The Validation Preconditions only apply when specific rules reference them. The following preconditions are always to be executed relative to the root of the FpML document being validated. The context of the rule is NOT … Continued

522: Namespace changes mean 4.3 is not backwards compatible with 4.2

FpML 4.3 states it is backwards compatible with 4.2 (http://www.fpml.org/spec/2007/lcwd-fpml-4-3-2007-10-30/html/index.html with one proviso 1.6.2.1) If this is true, one should be able to validate a 4.2 message using the 4.3 schema in any tool that supports validation against schema. However, this is not possible due to the namespace naming policy. http://www.fpml.org/spec/2007/tr-fpml-arch-2-1-2007-09-17/ – 4.4.1 That calls … Continued