What's New > New Standards Watch | 17 May 2026
May 19, 2026
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
- An octet of ESTA standards docs in public review.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: NTP servers and LAN cables in India; counterfeit certification marks in the USA.
- ANSI public reviews: semantic data model for buildings; confined spaces; WD6 wiring devices; and commercial building IT cabling.
- BSI public reviews: battery safety for personal electric vehicles; barcodes on trade documents.
- New ANS projects: personnel hoists; synchronizing audio and video; Radio Data Systems, 6.4 MHz to 108.0 MHz; entertainment industry sandbags; entertainment rigging load cells; and product safety signs.
- Final actions on American National Standards: serial communication for portable devices; and Open Distributed Processing.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: digital twins; cybersecurity; AI-enhanced nudging; AI system methods; quality management; occupational health management; brain-computer interfaces; plain language principles; cloud computing; knowledge management; and IoT context awareness.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: public health emergencies in smart cities; brain-computer interfaces; cybersecurity; and software live cycle.
- TSP meeting schedule.
- 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 at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.