NOTICE

Much of the structure of the ESPI XML format was derived from the schema
definition in the OpenESPI Project's OpenESPI-Common-java codebase.  That
definition contains the following NOTICE:

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NOTICE
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This product is a derivative work based on the
        NAESB REQ.21 Energy Service Provider Interface Standard
        Version 1.0
        Copyright 2011 NAESB

The NAESB schema may be purchased from NAESB at:

  http://www.naesb.org/misc/naesb_matl_order_espi_standards.pdf

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  http://www.naesb.org/pdf4/naesb_ipr_policy.doc

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