The foreword to a book is an introduction by the author or by someone else. a short piece of writing at the beginning of a book that introduces the book or its writer
The NERC Engineering Committee (EC) and Operating Committee (OC) jointly formed the Glossary of Terms Task Force (GOTTF) to develop a Glossary to serve the needs of the electrical industry in the open-access transmission environment fostered by a changing industry structure in response to the U S Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Orders Nos 888 and 889 These Orders, issued April 24, 1996, address "open-access nondiscriminatory transmission services" and "open-access same-time information systems "