From the Powerpoint document of the summary of breakout session 2-C from the NERC Aug. 1999 Workshop titled, "Remaining Steps in Completing Y2K the Readiness Process" (sic):

Tracking

--Finish exception list, NERC should report status at least monthly

--Y2K program management office needs to continue to track anything relative to maintenance and reliability even though these items may not need to be reported to NERC

Reporting

--Based on list of reporting entities, one company has already noticed one that is not reporting; this is an issue because the entire industry is not reporting

[ I've gotta be sarcastic here, can't help myself: Not all reporting? No kidding, Sherlock! This, combined with the following points made in this summary, did make me laugh a little. It seems now that the rollover is drawing closer, the individual utilities themselves are evidencing concern about what they don't know! I could only think to myself, "Join the club, guys.." ]

--Not much value in just knowing who is reporting, if Y2K status is not reported

--More detail reporting/better explanation of exceptions to explain the potential impact

--NERC may need to do some short term reporting to better explain the exceptions. Confidence by customers and others needs to be increased through more complete reporting

--If readiness status changes, it should be reported to NERC

IV&V Process, should documents from these be made public? [Isn't that Independent Verification and Validation?]

--Not much value, just adds cost to the program

--Inconsistency in process would make it difficult to make good comparisons

--Some external auditors will not allow results to be made public

--Could use the DOE process to provide standard process for others to follow

[ Sigh. They just get done talking about the need for more detailed reporting, but then don't think making Independent Validations available to the public is a good idea..."not much value". ]

Then right after this we have:

Customer Perspective

--Customers are not comfortable that their providers still have exceptions

--Customers need more explanations [Yes, how about those IV&V reports for a start?]

--Customers need clarification and information on transmission providers and control areas status

-- Anonymous, August 16, 1999

Answers

--Customer (dealing with the possiblity of lies and honest miscalculations) simply wants the truth as close as possible as the truth can be determined.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 1999

There must be some mistake here, Bonnie. That can't be from a NERC workshop. It's a compilation of the discussions on this forum. ;-)

-- Anonymous, August 17, 1999