Article #3451 - Glossary of Acronyms L - P

The following abbreviations are used in the GridWise™ KnowledgeBase

A - E F - K L - P Q - U V - Z

LAN

Local Area Network

MDA

Model Driven Architecture (OMG)

MEL

Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (NIST)

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIMOSA

Machinery Information Management Open Systems Alliance (OPC and ISA)

MMS

Manufacturing Message Specification (ISO)

MOF™

Meta-Object Facility (OMG)

MOU

Memorandum of Understanding

NAESB

North American Energy Standards Board

NAHBRC

National Association of Home Builders Research Center Inc.

NEMA

National Electrical Manufacturers Association

NERC

North American Electric Reliability Council

NETA

InterNational Electrical Testing Association

NFPA

National Fire Protection Association

NIST

National Institute for Standards and Technologies

NRECA

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

NTP

Network Time Protocol (IETF)

OAGi

Open Appication Group

OAMP

Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning (ATIS)

OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

OASIS-SCP

Open Access Same Time Information System - Standards and Communication Protocol (NAESB). This protocol is often referred to simply as "OASIS". To avoid confustion with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (a broader "OASIS"), this document refers to the NAESB/NERC "OASIS" work as OASIS-SCP.

ODP

Open Distribution Processing (ISO/IEC JTC1)

OE

Department of Energy Office of Electric Distibution and Energy Reliability (previously Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution, DOE program)

OLE

Object Linking and Embedding (OPC)

OMG

Object Management Group

OPC

Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control

OPC DA

OPC Data Access

OPC DX

OPC Data eXchange

OPEN EDI

Open Electronic Data Interchange (ISO/IEC JTC1)

OSGi

Open Services Gateway Initiative

OSC

OASIS Standards Collaborative (OASIS-SCP, NAESB)

OSI

Open SYstems Interconnection (ISO/IEC JTC1)

OWL

Web Ontology Language (W3C)

PELS

Power Electronics Society (IEEE)

PES

Power Engineering Society (IEEE)

PIP

Partner Interface Processes (RosettaNet)

PNNL

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PSIG

Platform Special Interest Group (OMG)

PTF

Platform Task Force (OMG)

Last Modified: 2006-05-24