Right now at this very instant of time and for a very short period of time in the near future the standards for the transmission, formats and processes for all of the data handled in the Smart Grid are being written. Everything that proceeds for decades after this time will hinge on what we do in the next approximately 25 days.
My associate Paul Noel wrote the following.
I was just at Connectivity Week in Santa Clara, Ca. This was a very high profile conference of Industry, Government and Utility interests who are setting up the smart grid.
I need to give you a very strong heads up warning for everyone in the USA and for that matter around the world regards the status and developments here. There are very serious matters going down and they need our instant and very smartest and most determined responses and we must get onto this immediately.
I heard it once said that if a congressman chose to write law he might never get anything he wanted done, but if he wrote the rules for the meetings in the congress he would control everything. Right now at this very instant of time and for a very short period of time in the near future the standards for the transmission, formats and processes for all of the data handled in the Smart Grid are being written. Everything that proceeds for decades after this time will hinge on what we do in the next approximately 25 days. Time is of the essence and people must get up to speed on this matter. The critical entity controlling this will be the NIST. Their email is smartgridcomments@nist.gov. Educate yourself as much on this matter as you can before you comment.
The NIST is a standards organization. They are not particularly interested in policy but what they do will form the basis for how all policy is managed and graded by the public and regulatory agents. We must watch and direct their methodology in a cooperative and contributory fashion. It is not wise for the people of the USA to ignore the seriousness of what is going down here. It would also be unwise to be hostile.
