What's New > New Standards Watch | 27 July 2026
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- Five ESTA standards recently published.
- One ESTA standard in public review until 10 August.
- And four more until 8 September.
- FCC proposes banning foreign swarming drones, including light show drones.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: nuclear power and radioactive materials in the USA; Canadian broadband equipment, 24.25-28.35 GHz and 37.6-40.0 GHz.
- ANSI public reviews: gantry cranes, bridge cranes, etc.; ICC Performance Code; solid-state fan speed control; mass fatality incidents;
- BACnet; ladder fall arrest systems; portable power distribution; table saw safety; and cord sets and power cords.
- New ANS projects: torch brazing; cybersecurity; component connectors.
- Final actions on American National Standards: insulation coordination; AV equipment safety; 3D automated concrete construction; battery-powered appliance safety; industrial and commercial power systems; Internet of Media Things; avoiding programming language vulnerability; and IoT.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: roadside electrical feeding systems; artificial intelligence; machine translation services; traffic management, ergonomics; workplace air; and cybersecurity age assurance systems.
- Recently published ISO & IEC documents: intelligent transport systems; AI quality; and sharing manufacturing (like ride-share, but different).
- 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.


