Technical regulations of the RAFMM

Content.

1. Generalities
2. Means of communication
3. Official materials
4. The structure of the technical department
5. Technical failure and data protection
6. Statistics gathering
7. Final provisions

 

1. Generalities

1.1. This document describes technical aspects of the RAFMM work including electronic means of communication, official website of the Association and software characteristics which are used for the stable functioning of the Association.

1.2. Every RAFMM member admits as currently central the list of technical mechanisms and actions which correspond to the technical support procedure of the Association activities.

1.3. This document includes considerable part of description and functional procedure of the RAFMM technical activities but it is not exhaustive. In case some technical problems which are not described in this document occur, the RAFMM members and technical staff of the Association act in accordance with working standards of equipment and software.

2. Means of communication

2.1 There is the RAFMM communication system, providing qualitative and efficient cooperation of the RAFMM participants, located in deferent regions of the Russian Federation, including:

а) electronic means of communication (E-mail, web-site);

b) voice and fax communication (phone, fax);

c) post communication (post and delivery service);

d) teleconference.

2.2 Each RAFMM participant’s representative should have official means of communication, listed in 2.1 item:

а) E- mail, in the form of name.surname@raufr.ru;

b) Office phone;

c) Official mail address.

2.3 Communication between the RAFMM participants such as discussion and making decisions by voting is made with the help of means of communication, listed in 2.1 item. Each of them has the following periods of receiving a message:

а) E-mail – 24 hours;

b) Office phone, fax – 12 hours;

c) Official mail address – 7 calendar days.

2.4 Each RAFMM participant after he has received a message, sent by one of the means of communication, confirms it’s receiving by sending printed and signed scan of the message text to: pool@raufr.ru. In case of not receiving the notification, the massage will be sent again.

2.5. In case of triple failure in receiving the confirming answer subject to the terms indicated in the item 2.3. a receiver is admitted as unavailable for communication and considered as absent at the procedure of current vote and discussion.

2.6. Participant and representative of the RAFMM’s participant can prevent his exclusion from the discussion or vote by the preliminary notification of the technical department by e-mail communication@raufr.ru . The period of postponement from the discussion or vote can not exceed 7 calendar days.

2.7. Voting, discussion and the process of the voting list formation is made by means of sending the official letters from the RAFMM members to e-mail: board@raufr.ru Every received e-mail is to send all other vote participants.

2.8. In the time of new vote or discussion process formation technical department issues this process with unique identification number. When sending the e-mail concerning one or another process of discussion or voting, sender is obliged to indicate in the title of the e-mail the unique identification number of this event which was issued by the technical department during the process of discussion or voting registration.

2.9. At the request of the majority of discussion participants technical department can appoint a time of teleconference which is set at one of the next 10 calendar days.

3. Official materials.

3.1. For providing the transparency of the RAFMM activity there is the following procedure of the decisions and other discussions’ results of the RAFMM publication:

а) The main source of the information about the RAFMM’s activity is the website of the Association by the address: http://raufr.ru

b) The Association has a right to publish any results of its activity in the mass media;

c) The Association has a right to publish any results of its activity by the third party authorized to make an assertion on behalf of the Association.

3.2. Any informational materials reflecting the results of the Association’s activity or reviews of the persons entitled can be recognized as official materials.

4. The structure of the technical department

4.1. For providing maximal efficiency of the technical personnel work the following structure of the technical department is approved:

а) Chief administrator – specialist responsible for all technical aspects of the RAFMM activity. He is appointed by the President or Executive Board on the principle of maximum number of votes.

b) Programmers – specialists responsible for development and maintenance of the server’s operation activity of the Association including the official website of the RAFMM.

c) Operators – specialists who are responsible for the work of the postal notification system and provide technical support of all the Association’s members regarding technical aspects of the RAFMM activity.

4.2. The Chief administrator holds the appointment during 4 years. Later his candidature is re-confirmed in the Executive Board on the principle of simple majority of votes.

4.3. The position of programmer is constant, each programmer can be appointed or removed by the decision of the Chief administrator or Executive Board.

5. Technical failure and data protection

5.1. This document is subject to the work of the following objects:

а) All servers enabled for the Association’s work

b) The official website of the Association

c) Any other official resources of the Association which operation is based on the software, requiring the maintenance.

5.2. There are provisioned the following types of the technical failures:

а) The official website’s server error which leads to the partial corruption of the website’s structure or full inaccessibility of the information.

b) Desequencing or data stream interrupting during the process of statistics’ fixing on the statistics’ servers of the Association including the statistics of quotations, analytical data and the data of traffic volume.

c) Cracking one of the Association’s servers with getting access to database and the system of its displaying by the third party

d) Breakdown of the post server’s work system leading to the full stop or improper processing of postal mails which belong to the members of the Association.

6. Statistics gathering

6.1. For the purpose of the statistical rations’ database maintenance there are provisioned the system of statistics’ control and data gathering which is based on the 24-hours server’s work.

6.2. Statistical data fixed at the side of the Association’s servers include:

а) Tick history of quotations by each of trading instruments;

b) Up-time server’s history reflecting the statistics of trading servers’ accessibility which are belong to brokerage companies.

6.3. Statistical data can be used for consideration of disputable situations or for quality assessment of informational flow of any company and its conformity to the real data by the Boards.

7. Final provisions

7.1. In case of discrepancy of stated in this Regulation terms and procedures to the up-to-date standard of the technical equipment or new technologies development which are not prescribed in this document, it can be completed by Chief administrator or Executive Board.

7.2. This document stipulates major emergency situations of technical failures but can not fully describe all possible cases of technical failures and so can not be considered as comprehensive with reference to enumeration of all possible risks connected with inappropriate work with information data.

7.3. Each occurrence of cases which are not stipulated in this regulation must lead to alteration of this document with the purpose of increasing the efficiency of the regulation and work of the whole technical department.

7.4. In case the stipulated in this regulation standards do not correspond to the activity of some company- member of the RAFMM, both parties consider this situation by discussion them in the Executive Board of the Association.