Question 5.1.10

In the Agency’s Manual of Procedures, v.3 and 4, in the part describing the requirements of the attributes of the two types of UMM XMLs, the description of the “Message ID” attribute says:

“The field ‘Message ID’ consists of two parts: ‘UMM thread ID’ and ‘Version Number’ separated by the underscore character. ‘Message ID’ = ‘UMM thread ID’_‘Version Number’

‘UMM thread ID‘part is the identifier of a series of UMMs reporting on the same event after potential updates. The ‘UMM thread ID‘remains unchanged even if the UMM is updated. The format of the ‘UMM thread ID‘part is to be set by the entity disclosing the information but should include no more than 25 alphanumeric characters.

‘Version Number’ is the unique identifier of UMM versions in a single UMM thread. It helps to reconstruct the history of prior publications. ‘Version Number’ consists of a sequential number with 3 numeric characters where 001 stands for the first UMM in a thread, 002 marks the first update, 003 the second update and so on.”

Context of the question:

• UMMs publication by an MP on any Platform for Inside Information publication and on its own web-site;
• definition of convention for creation of the “UMM thread ID” part of the ”Messaged ID”.

Question:

How should we interpret the requirement: “The ‘UMM thread ID‘part is the identifier of a series of UMMs reporting on the same event after potential updates. The ‘UMM thread ID‘remains unchanged even if the UMM is updated. The format of the ‘UMM thread ID‘part is to be set by the entity disclosing the information”?

Who should define the ‘UMM thread ID’ – the MP or the Platform for publication of inside information? Do you require the published ‘UMM thread ID’ and the one submitted to ARIS to be one and the same?

In case that an MP would like to publish UMMs on its own web-site and on a Platform for disclosure of Inside information, it is reasonable to expect the Message ID for both publications for one and the same event to be equal.

One interruption event of gas infrastructure may affects many assets or units (points). If an MP publishes one single UMM for one event, including all of its affected points, both on its own web-site and on a Platform for Inside Information disclosure,

• According to the Agency’s Manual of Procedures’ requirements, the information for every single affected asset or unit shall be made available via web-feeds to the Agency by individual XMLs.

Possible approaches:

Taking the above-mentioned into consideration, the Platform operator would have two options for identifying the messages submitted/made available via web-feeds to the Agency:

1) The Platform operators uses the Message ID (‘UMM thread ID’) provided by the MP for the UMM publication and replicates it for all XMLs for each affected by an event assets or units (points). Thus, in case of several affected points within one event, there will be several UMM XMLs (made available via web-feeds to the Agency) with one and the same Message ID (‘UMM thread ID’). It will still be possible to differentiate them via the “Affected asset or unit name” attribute content.

OR

2) The Platform operator generates completely new Message ID for every single XML (made available via web-feeds to the Agency), per affected asset or unit (point) by an event. The Message IDs (‘with the original Message ID (‘UMM thread ID’), used for the UMM publication on the MP web-site and on the Platform for Inside Information disclosure. It could be possible to see both Message IDs when accessing the published UMMs on the Platform operator/MP web-site, but the XMLs made available to the Agency will contain only the Message ID (‘UMM thread ID’) defined by the Platform operator.

Answer: The Message ID is to be set either by a Market Participant or the entity disclosing the information on behalf of the Market Participant. The Message ID shall be unique per XML, thus if multiple assets are affected by the same event each XML specifying the affected asset will have its unique Message ID.