What's New > New Standards Watch | 24 March 2026
March 25, 2026
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
- Twenty-two ESTA standards docs in public review.
- FCC lists foreign-made routers as security risk.
- FCC OET announces certain prohibitions will not apply to some routers.
- ULSE calls for members.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: LED lamp controlgear in Taiwan; California regulations for heavy-duty engines; ethylene oxide emissions in the USA; and IoT gateways in India.
- ANSI public reviews: wildland fire protection; network connectable device cybersecurity; human readiness; and grounding instrument transformers.
- New ANS projects: portable lithium primary cells and batteries; mobile cooking operations fire safety; EV fire-fighting; challenge course safety; cleaning and restoration; pool and spa maintenance; and power distribution system safety.
- Final actions on ANSs: ESTA's ANSI E1.56 rigging points; solid state over-current protection; and IES dimming & control method designations.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: IoT; diversity management; mobile toilets; and alkaline secondary cells and batteries.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: circular economy; natural rubber condoms; metaverse part 3; environmental aspects of lighting; industrial automation data characteristics; and IoT for home healthcare.
- 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.