Framework for energy market communications - Part 503: Market data exchanges guidelines for the IEC 62325-351 profile

IEC TS 62325-503:2014(E) is a technical specification intended for European electricity markets, and specifies a communication platform which every Transmission System Operator (TSO) in Europe may use to reliably and securely exchange documents for the energy market. Consequently a European market participant (trader, distribution utilities, etc.) could benefit from a single, common, harmonized and secure platform for message exchange with the different TSOs; thus reducing the cost of building different IT platforms to interface with all the parties involved. This also represents an important step in facilitating parties entering into markets other than their national ones. Keyword: deregulation of energy market

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IEC TS 62325-503:2014(E) is a technical specification intended for European electricity markets, and specifies a communication platform which every Transmission System Operator (TSO) in Europe may use to reliably and securely exchange documents for the energy market. Consequently a European market participant (trader, distribution utilities, etc.) could benefit from a single, common, harmonized and secure platform for message exchange with the different TSOs; thus reducing the cost of building different IT platforms to interface with all the parties involved. This also represents an important step in facilitating parties entering into markets other than their national ones. Keyword: deregulation of energy market

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 7

INTRODUCTION . 9

1 Scope . 10

2 Normative references . 10

3 Terms and definitions . 11

4 High level concepts . 12

4.1 What is MADES intended for? . 12

4.2 General overview . 13
4.3 Message delivery and transparency . 14
4.3.1 Message delivery . 14
4.3.2 Transparency. 14
4.4 Security and reliability . 15
4.5 Main components . 16
4.6 Distributed architecture . 17
4.7 Components’ exposed interfaces . 18
4.8 Security features . 18
4.8.1 Overview . 18
4.8.2 Transport-layer security . 19
4.8.3 Message-level security . 20
4.8.4 Non repudiation . 21
5 Components’ functions . 22
5.1 Routing messages . 22
5.2 Component and message unique identification (ID) . 23
5.3 Business-type of a business-message . 23
5.4 Delivery-status of a business-message . 23
5.5 Communication between components . 25
5.5.1 Principle . 25
5.5.2 Establishing a secured communication channel between two
components . 25
5.5.3 Token authentication of the client component . 26
5.5.4 Request authorisation . 26
5.5.5 Request/Reply validation . 26
5.6 Storing messages in components . 27

5.7 Lifecycle of a message state within a component . 27
5.8 Transferring a message between two components (Handshake) . 29
5.9 Accepting a message . 30
5.10 Event management . 31
5.10.1 Acknowledgements . 31
5.10.2 Notifying events . 32
5.10.3 Lifecycle of an acknowledgement . 34
5.10.4 Processing a transferred acknowledgement . 34
5.11 Message expiration . 35
5.11.1 Principle . 35
5.11.2 Setting the expiration time of a message: . 35
5.11.3 Looking for the expired messages: . 35
5.12 Checking the connectivity between two endpoints (Tracing-messages) . 35
5.13 Ordering the messages (Priority). 36

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5.14 Endpoint . 36

5.14.1 Endpoint functions . 36

5.14.2 Compression . 37

5.14.3 Signing . 38

5.14.4 Encryption . 39

5.15 Node . 41

5.15.1 Node functions . 41

5.15.2 Synchronizing directory with other nodes . 41

5.15.3 Updating the synchronization nodes’ list . 42

5.16 Certificates and directory management . 43

5.16.1 Definitions and principles . 43
5.16.2 Certificates: Format and unique ID . 44
5.16.3 Used certificates and issuers (CAs) . 44
5.16.4 Directory services . 46
5.16.5 Caching directory data . 46
5.16.6 Trusting the certificates of others components . 47
5.16.7 Renewing the expired certificates . 47
5.16.8 Revoking a certificate . 48
6 Managing the version of the MADES specification . 49
6.1 Issues and principles . 49
6.1.1 General . 49
6.1.2 Rolling out a new version (Mversion and N-compliance) . 49
6.1.3 Service compatibility . 49
6.1.4 Message compatibility . 50
6.1.5 Interface with BAs. 50
6.2 Using the correct version for services and messages . 51
6.2.1 Node synchronization and authentication . 51
6.2.2 Directory services and Network acceptance . 52
6.2.3 Messaging services . 53
6.2.4 Which version to use to send a message? . 53
7 Interfaces and services . 55
7.1 Overview . 55
7.1.1 General . 55
7.1.2 Error Codes . 55
7.1.3 Types for Time. 55

7.2 Endpoint interface . 56
7.2.1 Overview . 56
7.2.2 Services . 56
7.2.3 File System Shared Folders (FSSF) . 60
7.3 Node interface . 62
7.3.1 Overview . 62
7.3.2 Authentication service . 63
7.3.3 Messaging Services . 64
7.3.4 Directory services . 67
7.3.5 Node Synchronization interface . 70
7.4 Format of the node-list file . 71
7.5 Typed Elements used by the interfaces . 72
7.6 Description of the services . 79
7.6.1 About WSDL and SOAP . 79

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7.6.2 Endpoint interface. 79

7.6.3 Node interface . 86

7.6.4 XML signature example . 100

Figure 1 – MADES overall view . 12

Figure 2 – MADES scope . 13

Figure 3 – MADES key features . 13

Figure 4 – MADES message delivery overview . 14

Figure 5 – MADES security and reliability . 15

Figure 6 – MADES components . 16
Figure 7 – MADES network distributed architecture . 17
Figure 8 – MADES interfaces and services . 18
Figure 9 – MADES transport security overview . 19
Figure 10 – MADES secure communication initiation . 19
Figure 11 – Message signature . 20
Figure 12 – Message encryption and decryption . 20
Figure 13 – Non repudiation . 21
Figure 14 – Delivery route of a business-message . 22
Figure 15 – Reported events during the delivery of a business-message . 24
Figure 16 – Lifecycle of the local state of a business-message within a component . 28
Figure 17 – Transfer handshake when uploading of a message . 29
Figure 18 – Transfer handshake when downloading of a message . 30
Figure 19 – Acknowledgements along the route of the business-message . 32
Figure 20 – Encryption process . 40
Figure 21 – A node synchronizes with two other nodes . 42
Figure 22 – Certificates and certificate authorities (CAs) for a MADES network . 45
Figure 23 – Managing the specification version – node synchronization and
authentication . 51
Figure 24 – Managing the specification version – Directory services . 52
Figure 25 – Managing the specification version – Messaging services . 53
Figure 26 – Managing the specification version – Which version to use to send a
message? . 54

Figure 27 – Node interface – Overview . 63
Figure 28 – Node interface – Authentication service . 63
Figure 29 – Node interface – Messaging services – UploadMessages service. 65
Figure 30 – Node interface – Messaging services – DownloadMessages service . 66
Figure 31 – Node interface – Messaging services – ConfirmDownload service . 67
Figure 32 – Node interface – Directory services – GetCertificate service . 68
Figure 33 – Node interface – Directory services – GetComponent service. 70
Figure 34 – WSDL 1.1 definitions . 79

Table 1 – Message delivery status . 25
Table 2 – Business message status . 28
Table 3 – Accepting a message – Validation checks . 31

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Table 4 – Characteristics of notified events . 33

Table 5 – Event characteristics description . 34

Table 6 – Acknowledgement state description . 34

Table 7 – Compression – metadata attributes . 38

Table 8 – Signing – metadata attributes . 39

Table 9 – Encryption – metadata attributes . 40

Table 10 – Consequences of a certificate revocation . 48

Table 11 – Service compatibility – Possible changes . 50

Table 12 – Which version to use to send a message? . 54
Table 13 – Managing the specification version – Rejection conditions . 54
Table 14 – Interfaces and services – Generic error . 55
Table 15 – Interfaces and services – String value for errorCode . 55
Table 16 – SendMessage – Service request elements . 56
Table 17 – SendMessage – Service response elements . 57
Table 18 – SendMessage – Additional error elements . 57
Table 19 – ReceiveMessage – Service request elements . 57
Table 20 – ReceiveMessage – Service response elements . 57
Table 21 – ReceiveMessage – Additional error elements . 58
Table 22 – CheckMessageStatus – Service request elements . 58
Table 23 – CheckMessageStatus – Service response elements . 58
Table 24 – CheckMessageStatus – Additional error elements . 58
Table 25 – ConnectivityTest – Service request elements . 59
Table 26 – ConnectivityTest – Service response elements . 59
Table 27 – ConnectivityTest – Additional error elements . 59
Table 28 – ConfirmReceiveMessage – Service request elements . 59
Table 29 – ConfirmReceiveMessage – Service response elements . 59
Table 30 – ConfirmReceiveMessage – Additional error elements . 60
Table 31 – FSSF – Description and filename format. 61
Table 32 – FSSF – Filename description . 61
Table 33 – Authentication – Service request elements . 64
Table 34 – Authentication – Service response elements . 64

Table 35 – UploadMessages – Service request elements . 65
Table 36 – UploadMessages – Service response elements . 65
Table 37 – DownloadMessages – Service request elements . 66
Table 38 – DownloadMessages – Service response elements . 66
Table 39 – ConfirmDownload – Service request elements . 67
Table 40 – ConfirmDownload – Service response elements . 67
Table 41 – SetComponentMversion – Service request elements . 68
Table 42 – SetComponentMversion – Service response elements . 68
Table 43 – GetCertificate – Service request elements . 69
Table 44 – GetCertificate – Service response elements . 69
Table 45 – GetCertificate – Additional conditions . 69
Table 46 – GetComponent – Service request elements . 70

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Table 47 – GetComponent – Service response elements . 70

Table 48 – GetNodeMversion – Service request elements . 70

Table 49 – GetNodeMversion – Service response elements . 71

Table 50 – GetAllDirectoryData – Service request elements . 71

Table 51 – GetAllDirectoryData – Service response elements . 71

Table 52 – Node attributes ordered list . 71

Table 53 – AuthenticationToken . 72

Table 54 – Certificate . 72

Table 55 – CertificateType – string enumeration . 72
Table 56 – ComponentCertificate . 72
Table 57 – ComponentDescription . 73
Table 58 – ComponentInformation . 73
Table 59 – ComponentType – string enumeration . 73
Table 60 – Endpoint . 73
Table 61 – InternalMessage . 74
Table 62 – InternalMessageType – string enumeration . 75
Table 63 – MessageMetadata . 75
Table 64 – MessageProcessor . 75
Table 65 – Map . 75
Table 66 – MapEntry . 76
Table 67 – ValueType (enumeration) . 76
Table 68 – MessageState (string enumeration) . 76
Table 69 – MessageStatus . 76
Table 70 – MessageTraceItem . 77
Table 71 – MessageTraceState (string enumeration) . 77
Table 72 – NotConfirmedMessageResponse . 77
Table 73 – NotUploadedMessageResponse . 78
Table 74 – ReceivedMessage . 78
Table 75 – RoutingInformation . 78
Table 76 – SentMessage . 78

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FOREWORD
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IEC/TS 62325-503, which is a technical specification, has been prepared by IEC technical
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The text of this technical specification is based on the following documents:

DTS Report on voting
57/1370/DTS 57/1401/RVC
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INTRODUCTION
This Technical Specification is part of the IEC 62325 series which defines protocols for

deregulated energy market communications.

The principal objective of the IEC 62325 series is to produce standards which facilitate the

integration of market application software developed independently by different vendors into a

market management system, between market management systems and market participant

systems. This is accomplished by defining message exchanges to enable these applications

or systems access to public data and exchange information independent of how such

information is represented internally.

The common information model (CIM) specifies the basis for the semantics for the message
exchange. The European style market profile specifications that support the European style
design electricity markets are defined in IEC 62325-351. These electricity markets are based
on the European regulations, and on the concepts of third party access and zonal markets.
The IEC 62325-451-n International standards specify the content of the messages exchanged.
The purpose of this technical specification is to provide the guidelines to exchange the above
mentioned messages. A European market participant (trader, distribution utilities, etc.) could
benefit from a single, common, harmonized and secure platform for message exchange with
the European Transmission System Operators (TSOs); thus reducing the cost of building
different IT platforms to interface with all the parties involved.
This Technical Specification represents an important step in facilitating parties entering into
electricity markets other than their national ones; they could use the same or similar
information exchange system to participate in more than one market all over Europe.
This Technical Specification was originally based upon the work of the European Network of
Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E) Working Group EDI.

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1 Scope
This technical specification is for European electricity markets.

This document specifies a standard for a communication platform which every Transmission
System Operator (TSO) in Europe may use to reliably and securely exchange documents for
the energy market. Consequently a European market participant (trader, distribution utilities,
etc.) could benefit from a single, common, harmonized and secure platform for message
exchange with the different TSOs; thus reducing the cost of building different IT platforms to
interface with all the parties involved. This also represents an important step in facilitating
parties entering into markets other than their national ones.
From now on the acronym “MADES” (MArket Data ExchangeS) will be used to designate
these Technical Specifications.
MADES is a specification for a decentralized common communication platform based on
international IT protocol standards:
• From a business application (BA) perspective, MADES specifies software interfaces to
exchange electronic documents with other BAs. Such interfaces mainly provide means to
send and receive documents using a so-called “MADES network”. Every step of the
delivery process is acknowledged, and the sender can request about the delivery status of
a document. This is done through acknowledgement, which are messages returned back
to the sender. This makes MADES networks usable for exchanging documents in business
processes requiring reliable delivery.
• MADES also specifies all services for the business application (BA); the complexities of
recipient localisation, recipient connection status, message routing and security are
hidden from the connecting BA. MADES services include directory, authentication,
encryption, signing, message tracking, message logging and temporary message storage.
The purpose of MADES is to create a data exchange standard comprised of standard
protocols and utilizing IT best practices to create a mechanism for exchanging data over any
TCP/IP communication network, in order to facilitate business to business information
exchanges as described in IEC 62325-351 and the IEC 62325-451 series.

A MADES network acts as a post-office organization. The transported object is a “message” in
which the sender document is securely repackaged in an envelope (i.e. a header) containing
all the necessary information for tracking, transportation and delivery.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and
are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any
amendments) applies.
IEC 61970-2, Energy management system application program interface (EMS-API) – Part 2:
Glossary
IETF RFC 1738, Uniform resource locators (URL), http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

TS 62325-503  IEC:2014(E) – 11 –

IETF RFC 3110, RSA/SHA-1 SIGs and RSA KEYs in the domain name system

(DNS),http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3110.txt

IETF RFC 4122, A universally unique identifier (UUID) URN namespace,

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt

ITU-T Recommendation X.509, Information technology - Open systems interconnection - The

directory: Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks, http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-

X.509/en
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in IEC 61970-2 apply, as
well as the following.
NOTE General glossary definitions can be found in IEC 60050, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary.
3.1
advanced encryption standard
AES
symmetric cryptographic algorithm
3.2
distinguish encoding rule
DER
format for X.509 digital certificates
3.3
European style market profile
ESMP
European style market profile for which this Technical Specification is designed
3.4
market data exchange standard
MADES
standard described in this document for the European market style market profile
3.5
profile
basic outline of all the information that is required to satisfy a specific environment

3.6
transmission system operator
TSO
company responsible for operating, maintaining and developing the transmission system for a
control area and its interconnections

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4 High level concepts
4.1 What is MADES intended for?

Documents
TSO
TSO
Market
Auction Market
Trader DSO Other…
Office Participant Participant

Figure 1 – MADES overall view
MADES’ first intention is to provide TSOs with a standardized communication access point to
securely exchange documents with others parties involved in the European electricity market
as shown in Figure 1. These documents are mainly the ones used in the energy market and
described in IEC 62325-351 and the IEC 62325-451 series. Such parties include TSOs,
distribution system operators (DSO), balance responsible parties (BRP), capacity traders
(CT), market operators (MO), producers, transmission capacity allocators (TCA), etc.
The MADES enables each party to implement MADES access points (referred to as
endpoints) connected to his information system (IS), where he may securely send and receive
documents to and from other parties.
MADES is a market data exchange standard comprised of standard protocols and utilizing IT
best practices to create a mechanism for exchanging data over any TCP/IP communication
network, in order to facilitate business-to-business information exchanges.
New market rules induce new business processes and activities, and generally require new
information exchanges between parties. Experience shows that, for the exchanges to operate
according to the business goals, the chosen technical solution results from an agreement of
involved parties gathering various constraints, including implementation time scale, vendors’
offer, already existing communication links, integration capabilities of existing information
systems, confidentiality of exchanged information, legal risks, etc.
Where business processes require information to be exchanged between multiple systems or

multiple parties, solutions developed bilaterally may become extremely complex, with each
interface taking time, money and resources to be developed and be maintained. It is also a
noticeable consequence that some parties acting in several countries, such as traders, may
have to install different communication tools in order to interface with different trading
solutions. The future vision is a single interface between all parties in all areas of the
electricity market of Europe.
MADES can support any business process whatever the document types being transmitted
might be (e.g. XML, binary) and whatever the sequence for the exchanges.
MADES is independent of the physical underlying communication Infrastructure, which can be
any IP (Internet Protocol) network, such as Internet, a physical private infrastructure, or a
multi access-point virtual private network (VPN).

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MADES relies on and only on non-proprietary IT standards for communication protocols, data

integrity, signing and confidentiality (encryption), peer access point authentication, peer party

authentication, parties’ directory (e.g. HTTPS, SOAP, X.509), as shown in Figure 2.

Business Logic
Market rules
(processes and activities)
Document
Implementation Guide
structure and content
(e.g. ENTSO-E ESS XML)
Reliable Message Delivery
Transparency
MADES
Security
Integration
IT standards (e.g. HTTPS,
Communication Protocols
SOAP)
e.g. Internet, private network,
Network Infrastructure
virtual private network
Figure 2 – MADES scope
4.2 General overview
The purpose of the MADES standard is to specify a message delivery platform with the key
features shown in Figure 3.
Message Delivery
Security
Transparency
Reliability
MADES Standard
Integration
Figure 3 – MADES key features
1. Message delivery – A party (sender) connected to the communication network can
send a message to another party (recipient), which is connected or can connect to the
network.
2. Transparency – Any transported message can be tracked down to gather trustworthy
information about the state of delivery and traversal path.
Information
Technology (IT) Business
– 14 – TS 62325-503  IEC:2014(E)

3. Security – Only the recipient of the message is capable of reading the message-

content. The sender of any message can be unambiguously verified.

4. Reliability – A message cannot get lost.

5. Integration – The MADES functions for sending and rec
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