NPRR260

Title:	Providing Access to MIS Secure Area to MIS Registered Users
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Status:	Approved on 01/18/2011

Date	Gov Body		Next Steps
01/18/2011	Board of Directors	Approved
12/06/2010	TAC	Recommended for Approval	BOD consideration
11/18/2010	PRS	Recommended for Approval	TAC consideration
10/21/2010	PRS	Recommended for Approval	Review PRS Report and IA.
09/23/2010	PRS	Deferred/Tabled	PRS consideration
08/19/2010	PRS	Deferred/Tabled	PRS consideration
			PRS consideration

Date	Gov Body	Motion	Result
01/18/2011	Board of Directors	To approve NPRR260 as recommended by TAC in the 12/6/10 TAC Report.	Passed
12/06/2010	TAC	To recommend approval of NPRR260 as recommended by PRS in the 11/18/10 PRS Report.	Passed
11/18/2010	PRS	To endorse and forward the 10/21/10 PRS Report as revised by PRS and the Impact Analysis for NPRR260 to TAC and to assign NPRR260 a priority of Medium.	Passed
10/21/2010	PRS	To recommend approval of NPRR260 as amended by the 9/17/10 ERCOT comments and as revised by PRS.	Passed
09/23/2010	PRS	To table NPRR260	Passed
08/19/2010	PRS	To table NPRR260	Passed

Status:	Approved
Date Posted:	08/05/2010
Sponsor:	Crescent Power
Urgent:	No
Sections:	2.1, Definitions 16.12, User Security Administrator and Digital Certificates 16.15, Registration of Independent Market Information System Registered Entity(new) 22, Attachment A: Standard Form Market Participant Agreement
Description:	This Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) adds "Independent Market Information System (MIS) Registered Entity" to Section 2.1 and Section 22, Attachment A. By doing so, the Standard Form Market Participant Agreement would bind Independent MIS Registered Entities to the Nodal Protocols and, in particular, provisions in Section 16.12.
Reason:	The Nodal Protocols envision providing "registered users" access to MIS Secure Area (see Section 2). However, there are no contracts currently in the Protocols that would bind registered users to provisions in Section 16.12 associated with managing Digital Certificates. This NPRR corrects that situation by adding Independent Market Information System (MIS) Registered Entities in the Standard Form Market Participant Agreement. In the absence of this NPRR, consultants, power marketers, aggregators, consumers, universities - any Entity not listed in the Agreement - are unable to access the MIS Secure Area. These same Entities are currently able to get access to the planning and operations information (having similar network information) by registering with ERCOT.