<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><toc><section id="sec_foreword"><title>FOREWORD</title></section><section id="sec_1"><label>1</label><title>Executive Summary</title></section><section id="sec_2"><label>2</label><title>Introduction</title><section id="sec_2.1"><label>2.1</label><title>Why Develop a Framework?</title></section><section id="sec_2.2"><label>2.2</label><title>Multiple Viewpoints</title></section><section id="sec_2.3"><label>2.3</label><title>Background</title></section><section id="sec_2.4"><label>2.4</label><title>Scope</title></section><section id="sec_2.5"><label>2.5</label><title>Prerequisites</title></section><section id="sec_2.6"><label>2.6</label><title>Framework Progression</title></section><section id="sec_2.7"><label>2.7</label><title>Collaboration Terminology</title></section></section><section id="sec_3"><label>3</label><title>System Integration Philosophy</title><section id="sec_3.1"><label>3.1</label><title>Agreement at the Interface – A Contract</title></section><section id="sec_3.2"><label>3.2</label><title>Boundary of Authority</title></section><section id="sec_3.3"><label>3.3</label><title>Decision Making in Very Large Networks</title></section><section id="sec_3.4"><label>3.4</label><title>The Role of Standards</title></section></section><section id="sec_4"><label>4</label><title>High Level Categorization</title><section id="sec_4.1"><label>4.1</label><title>Technical Aspects</title><section id="sec_4.1.1"><label>4.1.1</label><title>Category 1: Basic Connectivity</title></section><section id="sec_4.1.2"><label>4.1.2</label><title>Category 2: Network Interoperability</title></section><section id="sec_4.1.3"><label>4.1.3</label><title>Category 3: Syntactic Interoperability</title></section></section><section id="sec_4.2"><label>4.2</label><title>Informational Aspects</title><section id="sec_4.2.1"><label>4.2.1</label><title>Category 4: Semantic Understanding</title></section><section id="sec_4.2.2"><label>4.2.2</label><title>Category 5: Business Context</title></section></section><section id="sec_4.3"><label>4.3</label><title>Organizational Aspects</title><section id="sec_4.3.1"><label>4.3.1</label><title>Category 6: Business Procedures</title></section><section id="sec_4.3.2"><label>4.3.2</label><title>Category 7: Business Objectives</title></section><section id="sec_4.3.3"><label>4.3.3</label><title>Category 8: Economic and Regulatory Policy</title></section></section></section><section id="sec_5"><label>5</label><title>Cross-Cutting Issues</title><section id="sec_5.1"><label>5.1</label><title>Shared Meaning of Content</title></section><section id="sec_5.2"><label>5.2</label><title>Resource Identification</title></section><section id="sec_5.3"><label>5.3</label><title>Time Synchronization and Sequencing</title></section><section id="sec_5.4"><label>5.4</label><title>Security and Privacy</title></section><section id="sec_5.5"><label>5.5</label><title>Logging and Auditing</title></section><section id="sec_5.6"><label>5.6</label><title>Transaction and State Management</title></section><section id="sec_5.7"><label>5.7</label><title>System Preservation</title></section><section id="sec_5.8"><label>5.8</label><title>Quality of Service</title></section><section id="sec_5.9"><label>5.9</label><title>Discovery and Configuration</title></section><section id="sec_5.10"><label>5.10</label><title>System Evolution and Scalability</title></section></section><section id="sec_6"><label>6</label><title>Examples of Applying the Framework</title></section><section id="sec_7"><label>7</label><title>Governance</title></section><section id="sec_8"><label>8</label><title>Acknowledgements</title></section><section id="sec_9"><label>9</label><title>References</title></section><section id="sec_A"><label>Appendix A</label><title>Example Scenarios</title><section id="sec_A.1"><label>A.1</label><title>Residential Demand Response</title><section id="sec_A.1.1"><label>A.1.1</label><title>Mrs. Meg A. Watts Moves In</title></section><section id="sec_A.1.2"><label>A.1.2</label><title>A Critical Peak Occurs</title><section id="sec_A.1.3"><label>A.1.3</label><title>An Emergency Occurs</title></section></section><section id="sec_A.1.4"><label>A.1.4</label><title>Meg and the Framework</title></section></section><section id="sec_A.2"><label>A.2</label><title>Commercial Building Demand Response</title></section><section id="sec_A.3"><label>A.3</label><title>Congestion Management Market</title></section></section><section id="sec_bibl"><title>Bibliography</title></section></toc>