UK WITS

 It has been agreed that the frequency of PSA Committee meetings to be once every quarter with technical meetings in addition.

• 2 out of the 4 meetings will be made into full day events – the morning sessions to be formal with the afternoons informal.
• The full-day events to be open to all paid up members, but we would have to place a limit on numbers, therefore we could invite all paid up members and allocate a place on a first come first served basis. In this way we can ensure we can cope with differing numbers depending on the host venue limitations.
• Informal meetings could be extended to non-member vendors who showed initial interest, by invitation only.
• Between formal meetings it was agreed that we have a teleconference on the 2nd Wednesday of the month for 1 hour, commencing at 09:00

The recent PSA Election results were announced at PSA Interim Meeting #8, and the 6 vendor and 6 user representatives who were elected were as follows :-

Vendors:

• Andrew Scott - Serck Controls
• Guy Fitzpatrick - ITT Water & Wastewater
• Stuart Combellack - Technolog
• Malcolm Tyler - Grontmij
• Gavin Rawson - CSE-Servelec
• Mark Davison - Metasphere

Users:

• Simon Harrison - Anglian Water
• Harry Wilkin – United Utilities
• Russell Wheadon – Thames Water
• Jim Baker – Water Corporation of Australia
• Martin Pritchard – Severn Trent Water
• Russell Rees – Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water

The DNP3 committee have withdrawn V4 of the secure authentication specification due to issues identified within the proposal, this will be replaced V5 later in the year but as a result of this the WITS Secure Authentication enhancement is on hold for the time being.

details here