DANSK DSF/IEC/TR 62357-200 ED. 1.0 PDF

This Technical Report applies to utility communications using utility-owned and leased networks, including, but not restricted to communication within substations, from substation to substation, from substation to control center / maintenance center, control center to control center, energy management systems, synchrophasors, distributed and bulk energy generation and storage resources and (including fossil fuel plants and renewables) wind-, and solar power generation, storage, demand side management, and demand response for distribution level consumers / producers. This Technical Report addresses the issues encountered when migrating from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). It describes migration strategies, covering impact on applications, communication stack, network elements, configuration, address allocation, cyber security and the related management. This Technical Report considers backward compatibility and show concepts as well as necessary migration paths to IPv6 from IPv4 where necessary, for a number of protocols in the IEC TC57 framework. The Ad-Hoc Group 8 reviewed the IEC TC57 standards and technical reports according to the reference architecture for power system information exchange (IEC 62357-1) and provides this Technical Report to support modifications caused by the introduction of IPv6 for revision of these documents, considering the impact of permitting or requiring IPv6 on IEC TC 57 standards. This Technical Report does not impose the use of the IPv6 technology in utility communications.