Application of The Next-Generation Internet Protocol in System Control and Data Aquisition

The transition to IPv6 will impact the entire group of Internet users at some time. IPv6 will impact these users at different times and in different ways since the Internet consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government users. However IPv6 standards are immature and are some cases still in progress. Within infrastructure control system the advantage of moving to an IPv6 networking protocol is associated with addressing the potentially large increase in the number sensors collecting data from the infrastructure system. However, although there are advantages a pressing issue of security lie beneath. The immaturity of IPv6 presents a lot of security threats which are presented in this paper and post recommendations as countermeasures.