What's New > ESTA Standard Watch - July 7, 2020
July 20, 2020
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Two draft TSP standards in public review.
- Another ESTA standard approved.
- Support legislation for our Industry.
- Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards now on sale.
- Considering offensive language.
- WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: medical masks in Taiwan; power cords in Saudi Arabia.
- ANSI public reviews: storm shelters; mobile robot safety; rope access systems; Fall Protection Code; effective behavior analysis; safety of human exposure to EM fields; Open Virtualization Format; withdrawal of 5.25” flexible disk cartridge standards; and cybersecurity for network-connectable healthcare products.
- New ANS projects: getting people out of stalled elevators; safety for belt manlifts; local and metropolitan area networks; POSIX; WAVE; consumer wireless device security and privacy; taxonomy for connected vehicles, blockchain decentralized architecture; device trusted extension architecture; and assessing human exposure to EM fields; software acquisition.
- Final actions on American National Standards: fracking; acoustics and noise; platform & stairway lifts, electric fences; twisted-pair; rigging inspections, trailer parks and campgrounds, temporal light artifacts; types of building construction; and JPEG 2000.
- Draft IEC & ISO documents: industrial EMC; environmental labels and declarations; generic cabling, IoT vocabulary; service excellence; and luminaire requirements and tests.
- Recently published IEC & ISO documents: low-voltage switchgear and controlgear; surge protectors part 331; microspeakers; generic cabling; cloud computing; textile floor covering installation, and digital still cameras.
- TSP meeting schedule for July, UPDATED
- TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.
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