Stakeholder Comment and Rationale Form
AESO AUTHORITATIVE DOCUMENT PROCESS
Stakeholder Consultation Draft
Date: 2012-12-11
Proposed New Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”) Reliability Standard Definitions (“New CIP Reliability Standard Definitions”)
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2012-12-11
2012-12-11
through 2013-01-25
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Definitions – New
Existing
No definition currently exists in
the reliability standards.
Proposed
Rationale
The AESO proposes to add this
“adverse reliability impact” means
definition so as to improve clarity
the impact of an event that results
in the CIP reliability standards
in bulk electric system instability
and to maintain a higher level of
or cascading.
consistency with NERC.
“blackstart resource” means a
generating unit and its associated
set of equipment which has the
ability to be started without support
from the system or is designed to
remain energized without
connection to the remainder of the
system, with the ability to energize
a bus, meeting the transmission
operator’s restoration plan needs
for real power and reactive power
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The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
Stakeholder Comments and/or
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Comment # 1: Insert Comments /
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capability, frequency and voltage
control, and that has been included
in the transmission operator’s
restoration plan.
“CIP Senior Manager” means a
single senior management official
with overall authority and
responsibility for leading and
managing implementation of and
adherence to the requirements
within the CIP reliability
standards.
The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
“cranking path” means a portion of
the electric system that can be
isolated and then energized to
deliver electric power from a
generation source to enable the
startup of one (1) or more other
generating units.
The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
“critical assets” means facilities,
systems, and equipment which, if
destroyed, degraded, or otherwise
rendered unavailable, would affect
the reliability or operability of the
bulk electric system.
The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
“critical cyber assets” means
cyber assets essential to the
reliable operation of critical
assets.
The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
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“cyber assets” means
programmable electronic devices
including the hardware, software
and data in those devices.
The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
“dial-up connectivity” means a
data communication link that is
established when the
communication equipment dials a
phone number and negotiates a
connection with the equipment on
the other end of the link.
The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
“electronic security perimeter”
means the logical border
surrounding a network to which
critical cyber assets are
connected using a routable protocol
and for which access is controlled.
The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
“physical security perimeter”
means the physical, completely
enclosed, “six-wall” border
surrounding computer rooms,
telecommunications rooms,
operations centers, and other
locations in which critical cyber
assets are housed and for which
access is controlled.
The AESO proposes to add this
definition so as to improve clarity
in the CIP reliability standards
and to maintain a higher level of
consistency with NERC.
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