Global Technical Committee

PROPOSALS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

CME Security Definition and TradeSubType (FIX Protocol Gap Analysis CME Security Definition and TradeSubType Extensions v0.3.doc, 302KB)
This proposal has been approved for public comment. The comment period will run for 1 week until March 19th. This proposal provides for enhancements to the Security Reference messages as well as new enumeration values to UnitOfMeasure and TrdSubType fields.
[11 March 2010]
CME Trading System Identification Proposal (FIX Protocol Gap Analysis CME Trading System Identification v0.4.doc, 205KB)
This proposal has been approved for public comment. The comment period will run for 2 weeks until March 26th. This proposal adds new fields to the Logon message to allow for the identification of the application system and the FIX engine that the counterparty is using to connect to the listener.
[11 March 2010]
Gap Analysis - Message Throttle (FIX Protocol Gap Analysis - Message Throttle v 0.10.doc, 303KB)
This proposal has been approved for public comment. The comment period will run for 3 weeks until April 2nd. This proposal adds significant new functionality to FIX to allow exchanges and ATS to throttle messages and set throttle limits. The GTC Governance Board would like to encourage the community to take a serious look at this proposal and provide feedback/comments/questions on the forum. The GTCGov wants to ensure that this proposal would meet the needs of exchanges and ATS that have a message throttling requirement.
[11 March 2010]
Deutsche Boerse Order Handling Extensions (FIX Protocol Gap Analysis Proposal DBAG v05.doc, 240KB)
This proposal has been approved for public comment. The comment period will run for 2 week until April 2nd. This proposal provides for enhancements order handling related to display quantities.
[19 March 2010]

PROPOSALS UNDER GTC GOV VOTE

OCC SLED Enhancements (SLEDS Submission-FIX Proposal Rev6.doc, 1.2MB)
This propose is now under GTC Governance Board voting period.
[19 February 2010]
Market Center Transparency Enhancements (FIX Protocol Gap Analysis - Market Center Transparency 0.2.doc, 184KB)
This proposal is now under GTC Governance Board vote.
[20 February 2010]

PUBLIC ARCHIVE

Differentiating NASDAQ Exchange Executions vs. OTC Executions in FIX (Differentiating NASDAQ Exchange Executions vs OTC.doc, 43KB)
As a result of NASDAQ becoming an exchange (according to US securities law) as of August 1, 2006, firms will need to differentiate between transactions occurring on the NASDAQ Exchange and transactions occurring off-exchange/over-the-counter (OTC). The question is: Which values should be used for Exchange fields in FIX messages?
[4 August 2006]
Matt Simpson of CME Elected as Co-Chair of FPL Global Technical Committee (FIX Press Release - Matt Simpson Elected as Co-Chair of FPL GTC.pdf, 8KB)
See press release about Matt Simpson's election as GTC co-chair.
[14 June 2005]
FIX Functionality Matrix - DRAFT (FIX Functionality Matrix_20050318a.doc, 122KB)
Matrix of FIX functionality by FIX version.
[18 March 2005]
Global Technical Committee - 2005 Goals
GTC's goals for 2005.
[3 February 2005]
Global Technical Committee - 2004 Accomplishments
GTC's Accomplishments from 2004.
[3 February 2005]
FIX Protocol Maintenance Procedures (FIXProtocolMaintenanceProcedures.html, 10KB)
HTML document which describes the FIX Protocol organization, a high-level technical overview of FIX, role of working groups and the Technical Committee, and how changes are made to the specification.
[19 May 1999]