What's New > ESTA Standard Watch - February 25, 2020
February 25, 2020
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- • Three draft ESTA standards available for public review.
- Behind the Scenes Mental Health Initiative seeks therapist recommendations.
- ANSI seeks comments on ISO consumer incident investigations proposal.
- FCC Open Commission Meeting announced for this Friday, February 28.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: RoHS in Bangladesh; labeling fabrics and considering costs of appliance energy standards in the USA; and banning plastic shopping bags in Albania.
- ANSI public reviews: power transmission couplings; three addenda to Standard 189.1; nondestructive testing personnel; large occupant office chairs; lounge furniture; powered subwoofers and home speakers; overhead wires; power on twisted pair cabling; and field-installed appliance controls.
- CSA public reviews: firewall penetrations; GFCI on outdoor outlets; and surge protection on emergency power panelboards.
- New ANS projects: spacecraft architecture; welding personnel; ESTA projects for ground-supported winch stands and revising E1.6-1; consumer robotics cybersecurity; free topology twisted-pair; and control networking protocol specification parts 5 and 6; wireless power glossary; and small network equipment power consumption.
- Final actions on American National Standards: control networking protocol specification parts 8 and 9; and 27 new IES standards, including “Lighting Science: Vision - Eye and Brain.”
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: IoT; DALI; lighting safety, low-voltage switchgear; smart cities; and security planning in the built environment.
- Recently published IEC & ISO docs: electronic display durability; power quality; industrial automation reliability; edge computing landscape; and hydraulic systems efficiency.
- Updated TSP meeting schedule.
- TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available here.