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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.

News items in this issue include:

• Six ESTA docs in public review.
• Nachtkritik.plus offers a portal on digitality in theater.
• Highlights of the upcoming 2022 New World Rigging Symposium.
• WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notification: CB radios in Canada.
• ANSI public reviews: UL standard for door and drapery operators; surge protection devices; post-installed anchors in concrete; ventilation for acceptable indoor air quality; thirteen addenda to ASHRAE/IES 90.1; room fire tests; lighting control intent narratives; lighting exterior applications; sports and recreation lighting; passenger ropeways and conveyors; and nine NFPA standards.
• CSA public reviews: accessible design; mechanically laminated lumber; and safeguarding machinery to protect workers.
• New ANS projects: greenhouse gas emissions; cannabis security; portable generators; communications information exchange; and parks lighting
• New American National Standards: glued laminated lumber; an addendum to ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USBGC 189.1; two addenda to ASHRAE/IES 90.1 and one addendum to 90.2; underhung hoists; personnel lifting; reducing slips when walking; guide to digital communication protocols; lighting terms and definitions; 0 to 10 V current SINKING lighting control; matching amplifiers to speakers; wiring devices dimensions; and battery safety.  
• In case you missed it, a standard for lighting data tagging vocabulary.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: cybersecurity; artificial intelligence; automated valet parking systems; safety of machinery positioning of safeguards; lithium-ion batteries and charging systems; USB cables, connectors, and power; electromechanical contactors; collision evasive lateral manoeuvre systems; e-scooter run time; service robots; internet of media things; proficiency of proficiency testers; immersive media; cloud computing; and 19 Field Device Integration standards.
• Recently published IEC & ISO docs: lithium-ion cells for propulsion; garbage truck energy consumption; four future network standards including “Networking of everything”; and cloud computing data sharing agreements.
• TSP meeting schedule
• TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
• Investors in Innovation, the current list of supporters for ESTA's TSP.

The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.