1. Gas Distribution Access Rule (GDAR) Electronic Business Transactions (EBT) Standards Kick-off Meeting June 9, 2005

2. OEB Direction  File draft standard form of Service Agreement by July 8/05  File a proposed EBT Standards Appendix by September 6/05  In each case, 30 days to comment Use retail electricity as a model (“mirror”)  Subject to: No conflict with GDAR Applicability to the natural gas market Enough detail to allow for competition and maximum choice of supplier

3. OEB Staff Plan Overview  Two main activities Service Agreements – Alison Cazalet EBT Standards – Barb Robertson Overall coordination – Russ Houldin  Service Agreements Draft released June 3 Ad-hoc meetings to clarify comments  EBT Standards Intensive Work group meetings Straw Man available for June 20

4. GDAR TIMELINE SERVICE AGREEMENT(SA) EBT STANDARDS July 8 Draft SA June 3 Sept 6 Comment deadline June 10 Kickoff meeting June 9 Draft Standards text June 20 Final Draft Standards text (& Protocol) Aug 19 Draft Transport protocol July 1 meetings Comment period File SA File Standards Meetings as necessary meetings

5. GDAR EBT Standards Logistics  Participation Lead representatives  specialists  Group structure – need for subgroups Transport protocol, ad-hoc  Meetings schedule – Straw Man  Continuing need for Work Group  Meetings conduct Focus on working Standards document  Minutes, issues-list, etc. TBD

6. GDAR EBT Standards – Meetings “Straw Man” MONTUESWEDTHURSFRI A.M. Review & preparation A.M. Meeting A.M. Ad-hoc meetings as necessary A.M. P.M. Review & preparation P.M. Meeting P.M. Meeting P.M. Ad-hoc meetings as necessary P.M. Discussion documents circulated

7. GDAR KICKOFF KEY POINTS  Staff instructed to file SAs and EBT Standards  Looking to the gas industry to file best possible documents Everyone will have to “live with” the results  Looking to advice from electricity industry to leverage a system that works suitably modified for the natural gas industry Both types of expertise are essential  GDAR is incomplete in places (e.g. billing) Electricity model to be the basis to fill in the gaps  Respecting existing practices  Need for a continuing role for the Work Group Implementation