BS EN IEC 62541-6:2020

This part of IEC 62541 specifies the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) mapping between the security model described in IEC TR 62541‑2, the abstract service definitions specified in IEC 62541‑4, the data structures defined in IEC 62541‑5 and the physical network protocols that can be used to implement the OPC UA specification.

IEC 62541-6:2020 is available as IEC 62541-6:2020 RLV which contains the International Standard and its Redline version, showing all changes of the technical content compared to the previous edition.

IEC 62541-6:2020 specifies the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) mapping between the security model described in IEC TR 62541-2, the abstract service definitions specified in IEC 62541-4, the data structures defined in IEC 62541-5 and the physical network protocols that can be used to implement the OPC UA specification. This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2015. This edition constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition: a) Encodings: • added JSON encoding for PubSub (non-reversible); • added JSON encoding for Client/Server (reversible); • added support for optional fields in structures; • added support for Unions. b) Transport mappings: • added WebSocket secure connection – WSS; • added support for reverse connectivity; • added support for session-less service invocation in HTTPS. c) Deprecated Transport (missing support on most platforms): • SOAP/HTTP with WS-SecureConversation (all encodings). d) Added mapping for JSON Web Token. e) Added support for Unions to NodeSet Schema. f) Added batch operations to add/delete nodes to/from NodeSet Schema. g) Added support for multi-dimensional arrays outside of Variants. h) Added binary representation for Decimal data types. i) Added mapping for an OAuth2 Authorization Framework.