The IETF and the SmartGrid

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Richard Shockey <richard () shockey us>
> Date: October 5, 2009 19:09:35 EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: FW: The IETF and the SmartGrid

> For IP if interested...
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> To: ietf () ietf org
> Subject: The IETF and the SmartGrid
>
>
> The general internet community needs to be aware of activities in  
> North
> America that directly relate to the use of IETF protocols in the  
> Electric
> Utility industry. This activity is generally referred to as the  
> SmartGrid.
> Though the issues immediately deal with technical and policy  
> decisions in
> the US and Canada, the SmartGrid concept is gaining significant  
> momentum in
> Europe and Asia as well.
>
> http://www.smartgrids.eu/
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid#Countries
>
>
> The SmartGrid has many definitions but as a practical matter it is a
> substantial re-architecture of the data communications networks that
> utilities use to maintain the stability and reliability of their power
> grids. Many of the requirements for the SmartGrid in North America  
> came out
> of the 2003 North East power outage which demonstrated a substantial  
> lack of
> investment in Utility IT systems.
>
> http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/Files/20040915141105-blackout.pdf
>
> Of particular note, is the desire by utilities to extend the reach  
> of their
> communications networks directly to the utility meter and beyond  
> ultimately
> into the customer premise itself. This is generally referred to as the
> Advanced Meter Interface (AMI).  One of the use cases driving this
> requirement is the next generation of plug-in hybrid electric  
> vehicles. The
> utilities, correctly IMHO, want to precisely control the timing of  
> how these
> vehicles are recharged so not to create a unique form of DOS attack  
> and take
> out the grid when everyone goes home at night.  This is a principal  
> use case
> in 6lowpan ( ID below ). Increasingly energy flows are becoming
> bi-directional creating needs for more computational intelligence and
> capability at the edge.
>
> What is going on? Why should the IETF community care?
>
> The United States Government, as part of the Energy Independence and
> Security Act of 2007 gave the National Institute of Standards and  
> Technology
> ( NIST ) principal responsibility "to coordinate development of a  
> framework
> that includes protocols and model standards" for the SmartGrid.
>
> http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/
>
>
> After several meetings sponsored by NIST in recent months, NIST  
> released a
> preliminary report. Several folks from the IETF community attended  
> those
> meetings, myself included. There multiple troubling stories about  
> how those
> meetings were organized but I'll leave those tales to others.
>
> http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/smartgrid_interoperability.pdf
>
> One of the requests from NIST and the SmartGrid community was a list  
> of Core
> Internet protocols that NIST could refer to.  Fred Baker has been  
> working on
> that task. ( below )
>
> Myself and others are deeply concerned by how this effort is  
> developing.
> There is no current consensus on what the communications  
> architecture of the
> SmartGrid is or how IP actually fits into it.
>
> The Utility Industry does not understand the current IPv4 number  
> exhaust
> problem and the consequences of that if they want to put a IP  
> address on
> every Utility Meter in North America.
>
> What is equally troubling is that many of the underlying protocols  
> that
> utilities wish to deploy are not engineered for IPv6. We have an  
> example of
> that in a recent ID.
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-c1222-transport-over-ip-01.txt
>
>
> Obviously, there are significant CyberSecurity issues in the SmartGrid
> concept and NIST has produced a useful document outlining the  
> requirements
> and usecases.
>
> http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/nistir-7628/draft-nistir-7628.pdf
>
> How the SmartGrid interfaces with or bridges with Home Area or  
> Enterprise
> Local Area networks is unclear, to put it mildly.
>
> I want to use this message to encourage the community to read the  
> attached
> documents and get involved in this effort as appropriate.   
> Additional NIST
> documents will be published shortly with a open public comment period.
>
> I strongly urge members of the IETF community to participate in this  
> comment
> period and lend its expertise as necessary.
>
> It's useful and important work.
>
> ************************
>
>
> Title  : Core Protocols in the Internet Protocol Suite
>    Author(s)       : F. Baker
>    Filename        : draft-baker-ietf-core-03.txt
>    Pages           : 32
>    Date            : 2009-10-03
>
> This note attempts to identify the core of the Internet Protocol  
> Suite.  The
> target audience is NIST, in the Smart Grid discussion, as they have
> requested guidance on how to profile the Internet Protocol Suite.  In
> general, that would mean selecting what they need from the picture  
> presented
> here.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-baker-ietf-core-03.txt
>
>
>
>
> Title  : Design and Application Spaces for 6LoWPANs
>    Author(s)       : E. Kim, et al.
>    Filename        : draft-ietf-6lowpan-usecases-04.txt
>    Pages           : 30
>    Date            : 2009-10-01
>
> This document investigates potential application scenarios and use  
> cases for
> low-power wireless personal area networks (LoWPANs).  This document  
> provides
> dimensions of design space for LoWPAN applications.
> A list of use cases and market domains that may benefit and motivate  
> the
> work currently done in the 6LoWPAN WG is provided with the  
> characterisitcis
> of each dimention.  A complete list of practical use cases is not  
> the goal
> of this document.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-6lowpan-usecases-04.txt
>
>
>
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