The CIM Technical Subcommittee is responsible for handling all technical and maintenance issues concerning the CIM and related standards. Responsibilities include:

• Facilitate a forum for all CIM users by fielding all requests for information regarding the CIM and related standards
   o Handle requests for information and provide response or assign to proper person/task force/group to prepare response. 
• Manage the CIM issues process

o Compile and categorize issues
o Develop proposed resolutions
o Obtain agreement on resolutions from CIM Technical Subcommittee and IEC TC57 WG 13 and 14.

• Provide version management of the CIM UML model as well as derived files in other formats (e.g., XML, RDF, etc.)
• Maintain oversight of support tools for the CIM and related standards

o Tools for generation of CIM RDF and XML schema
o Tools for compliance testing and validation of files/products for conformance to the standards
o Test suites for interoperability testing

• Provide oversight of Web site to ensure objectives of CIM Technical Subcommittee are met
• Maintain repositories for:
• User experiences to facilitate sharing of lessons learned 
• Artifacts produced by individual projects implementing the CIM and related standards, such as private CIM extensions, message payload definitions, tools, and training materials
• Sample CIM/XML/RDF power system model files
• White papers and other papers/presentations
• References for CIM standards
• References for tutorial material on modeling, XML, semantic models, etc.
• Provide liaison with other UCAIug Technical Subcommittees
• Provide liaison with other standards groups and assessing impact of other standards on the form, scope and content of the CIM.
  o For each standards group, a responsible person to communicate with that group is identified. A member of the committee can represent more than one recognized group.
  o Determine if proposed changes to CIM need to have concurrence from other standards groups. Communicate with other standards groups for
  resolution of issues.
  o Obtain answers to questions about other standards
• Research methods and tools used by other standards groups and determine
  adaptability to maintain CIM
• Conduct teleconferences to discuss technical issues and resolutions
• Meet at least once/year or more if work warrants additional meetings
• Charter special purpose task forces to facilitate resolution of issues, development of
  test suites, etc.