Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!ptolemy!ames!dftsrv!hq!cliff
From: cliff@hq.hq.af.mil (Cliff.J.Bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Power Utility Standards (WAS: Real time data acquisisition and X.25)
Summary: Utility Comms Architecture from EPRI
Message-ID: <5817@hq.hq.af.mil>
Date: 3 Feb 91 02:05:35 GMT
References: <5041@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
Organization: Air Force HQ, The Pentagon
Lines: 28

In article <5041@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Alain Martineau writes:
>	I read in 'Communications Week' that there is the equivalent of GOSIP
>for the utilities industry. Nobody I know ever heard of that. Does anybody
>know anything about it ? 

  You're referring to the Utility Communications Architecture (UCA)
  written by Andersen Consulting for the Electric Power Research Institute
  (EPRI). As far as I can tell, it is a restatement of the OSI stack
  per the Manufacturing Message Specification profile.
  
  The EPRI contact I have is:

	Mr. Wade Malcom
	EPRI Project Manager
	3412 Hillview Avenue
	Palo Alto, California 94304 USA

>We try to get hold of the standards but there
>seems to be many organisations with competing standards, IEEE, X/Open, COS,
>ANSI, CCITT, OSF. It is confusing. 

 Yes, OSI standards are confusing to the novice.
 But don't worry; when you get more experience, you will achieve total 
 bewilderment, like the experts. :-)

Good Luck

Cliff Bamford               Internet:cliff@hq.af.mil 
San Diego:(619)689-8921  Washington DC:(703)370-3034