IEC 61850-6:2009/AMD1:2018

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Edition 2.0 2018-06
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
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AMENDMENT 1
Communication networks and systems for power utility automation –
Part 6: Configuration description language for communication in power utility
automation systems related to IEDs
IEC 61850-6:2009-12/AMD1:2018-06(en)

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IEC 61850-6 ®
Edition 2.0 2018-06
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
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AMENDMENT 1
Communication networks and systems for power utility automation –
Part 6: Configuration description language for communication in power utility
automation systems related to IEDs
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
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FOREWORD
This amendment has been prepared by IEC technical committee 57: Power systems
management and associated information exchange.
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INTRODUCTION
This Amendment 1 aims to amend the original content of IEC 61850-6:2009 and to correct its
content in order ensure a better interoperability of the components implementing it.
This Amendment 1 brings two distinct sets of changes
1) Resolved Interop Issues (covered by Clause 3 of this Amendment 1) which have
already followed the technical issues ( Tissues) process as described in IEC 61850-1
and have reached the green “status”.
2) Resolved Editorial Tissues (Technical Issues) (covered by Clause 4 of this Amendment
1) which may have lead to interoperability issues.
The resolutions of these issues which lead to these changes are described in greater detail in
the Tissue database hosted at http://tissue.iec61850.com.
The only new features compared to the original IEC 61850-6:2009 are the inclusion of the
Process and Line elements supporting other application areas than substations, and
necessary enhancements to fully support the amended communication related parts. Apart
from this this Amendment 1 strictly respects the scope of the original edition.
Because some of the corrected issues may have a widespread impact on many pages of the
original standard, a complete consolidation of these changes into IEC 61850-6:2009 is
circulated through the reference 57/xxxx/INF, which reflects the content of IEC 61850-6:2009
as amended by this Amendment 1.
Technical issues summary
N°, Subject, Cat, Clause and Paragraph are as they appear on the Tissue database hosted at
http://tissue.iec61850.com where all technical issues have been stored from the origin of
IEC 61850.
“Subject” defines very briefly the topic under focus.
“Cat” defines whether this has been considered as an Interoperability Issue (IntOp2) or just a
need for amending IEC 61850-6:2009.
The Tissues which have been considered in this Amendment 1 are:
N° Subject Cat Clause Paragraph
658 Tracking related features IntOp2 Annex A
660 XML encoding header repeat Ed2 Annex A.4
FCDA element cannot be a
663 IntOp2 9.3.7 Table 22
"functionally constrained logical node"
668 Modeling of autotransformer IntOp2 9.2.4
678, 699 DO type description table Ed2 Table 43
687 ResvTms attribute at the SGCB Ed2 9.3.12
719 ConfDataSet maxAttributes defineds IntOp2 9.3.2 Table 11
FCDA elements in data set
721 Log element name IntOp2 9.3.5
731 SCL example inconsistent Ed2 9.3.4§
752 Input section naming Ed2 9.3.13
768 bType VisString65 is missing IntOp2 Annex A
779 Relative object references IntOp2 9.5.4.1

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N° Subject Cat Clause Paragraph
787 SICS I45 inconsistency Ed2 Annex G
788 SICS S56 from optional to mandatory IntOp2 Annex G
789 (822) ConfLdName for services applies to IntOp2 9.3.2 Table 11
client and server
804 valKind and IED versus system IntOp2 9.5.4.1
configurator
806 Max length of log name incosnsten to Ed2 Annex A SCL_BaseSimpleTypes
part 7-2
807 Indicate if ‘owner’ is present in RCB Ed2 9.3.2 Table 11
823 valKind for structured data attributes IntOp2 9.5.4.1
824 Short addresses at structured data IntOp2 9.3.6, 9.5.4.1
attributes
825 Floating point values IntOp2 9.5.4.1 Table 45
845 SGCB ResvTms IntOp2 9.3.2 Table 11
853 SBO and ProtNs IntOp2 9.5.5
855 recursive SubFunction Ed2 9.2.7
856 Voltage level frequency and phases Ed2 9.2.2
857 Function/SubFunction for primary Ed2 9.2.4
equipment
873 Examples for “curvpts” Ed2 9.3.6 end of paragraph
886 Missing 8-1 P-Types Ed2 Annex A
901 tServices at Ap and at IED Ed2 9.3.2 below Table 12
936 SupSubscription parameter usage is IntOp2 9.3.2 Table 11
difficult
948 Enumeration (string) value format IntOp2 9.5.6
949 type of LN inst is ambiguous Ed2 9.3.5 Table 17
1118 RptEnabled definition Ed2 9.3.8
1147 Filehandling service capability Ed2 9.3.2 Table 11
1195 Typographical error Ed2 9.3.2
1208 IP V6 address format IntOp2 Annex A.5
1284 SCSM mapping may require a Ed2 7
communication section in an ICD file
1298 How to differentiate preconfigured Ed2 9.3.2 Table 11
Report data sets from those generated
by the system tool
1304 Error in SCL object model Ed2 Figure 6
1318 SSD will not validate against XSD Ed2 9.2.6 Note 2
1328 Limitation of the size of identifiers IntOp2 9.5.2, 9.5.3, 9.5.6
1354 Changes to SICS Ed2 Annex G
1359 Replace “c37_238” with “61850-9-3” Ed2 9.3.2
1365 Need to tighten up the XSD in regards IntOp2 9.2.6 3
to IED name usage
1395 Client LN attributes IntOp2 9.3.8
1396 The use and configuration flow of Ed2 9.3.2 Table 11
LGOS and LSVS is Unclear
1397 Subscription limitation visible in IxD file Ed2 Annex G
1398 originalSclVersion management in SCT Ed2 9.3.2
1402 Extref during engineering Ed2 9.3.13, Annex
H(new)
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N° Subject Cat Clause Paragraph
1415 SICS-S110 IID import mandatory Ed2 Annex G Table G.2
1419 Support of ldName on other IEDs Ed2 Annex G Table G.1
1434 Add capability to change nofASDU is Ed2 9.3.2 Table 11
missing
1444 Need to support fixed and SCT Ed2
controlled data sets
1445 ConfReportControl and a fixed Ed2 9.3.2 Table 11
reportSettings
1447 Restriction on EnumTypes in SCL Ed2
1448 Not possible to determine the Ed2
restriction on number of BRCBs if
rptMod=both
1450 originalSclXxx computation rules IntOp2 9.3.2
1457 Multiple DOI nodes with the same Ed2
name
1458 New ExtRef attributes for later binding Ed2

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INTRODUCTION
Add, after the first paragraph of the Introduction, the following new paragraph:
While this part describes the language to describe the configuration of IEC 61850 systems,
other parts of the standard describe how to configure the system and possible restrictions.
Therefore implementations claiming conformance to this standard shall take into account
constraints from the other normative references. Some references to the other parts have
been included for the purpose of clarification but these references are not all inclusive.
1 Scope
Replace the existing text of the Scope with the following new text:
1.1 General
This part of IEC 61850 specifies a file format for describing communication-related IED
(Intelligent Electronic Device) configurations and IED parameters, communication system
configurations, switch yard (function) structures, and the relations between them. The main
purpose of this format is to exchange IED capability descriptions, and SA system descriptions
between IED engineering tools and the system engineering tool(s) of different manufacturers
in a compatible way.
The defined language is called System Configuration description Language (SCL). The IED
and communication system model in SCL is according to IEC 61850-5 and IEC 61850-7-x.
SCSM specific extensions or usage rules may be required in the appropriate parts.
The configuration language is based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML) version 1.0
(see XML references in Clause 2).
This standard does not specify individual implementations or products using the language, nor
does it constrain the implementation of entities and interfaces within a computer system. This
part of the standard does not specify the download format of configuration data to an IED,
although it could be used for part of the configuration data.
1.2 Namespace name and version
This new section is mandatory for any IEC 61850 namespace (as defined by
IEC 61850-7-1:2011).
The parameters which are identifying this new release of the SCL namespace
xmlns:scl="http://www.iec.ch/61850/2003/SCL" are:
• Namespace Version: 2007
• Namespace Revision: B
• Namespace Release: 4
• Namespace release date: 2018/01/22

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The table below provides an overview of all published versions of this namespace.

Edition Publication date Webstore Namespace
Edition 1.0 2004-03 IEC 61850-6:2004 IEC 61850-6:2003
Edition 2.0 2009-12 IEC 61850-6:2009 IEC 61850-6:2007B
Amendment 1 of Edition 2018 IEC 61850-6:2009/AMD1:2018 IEC 61850-6:2007B4
2.0
Edition 2.1 2018 IEC 61850-6:2009+AMD1:2018 CSV IEC 61850-6:2007B4

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