Standards News October 2015 Volume 19, Number 19 Table of Contents ANSI Approves Two Control Protocols Standards, Withdrawal of Another
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PLASA Standards News October 2015 Volume 19, Number 19 Table of Contents ANSI Approves Two Control Protocols Standards, Withdrawal of Another.......................................................1 Wahoo! Texas Plugfest Returns........................................................................................................................ 2 WTO Technical Barrier to Trade Notifications...................................................................................................2 Mexico Notification MEX/292........................................................................................................................ 2 Saudi Arabia Notification SAU/860................................................................................................................3 Taiwan Economy Notification TPKM/215.......................................................................................................3 European Union Notification EU/317.............................................................................................................4 ANSI Public Review Announcements...............................................................................................................4 Due 9 November 2015.................................................................................................................................. 5 Due 16 November 2015................................................................................................................................ 5 Due 23 November 2015................................................................................................................................ 6 Due 8 December 2015.................................................................................................................................. 6 CSA Public Review Announcements................................................................................................................8 Due 4 November 2015.................................................................................................................................. 8 Due 24 November 2015................................................................................................................................ 8 DIN Public Review Announcements.................................................................................................................8 Due 7 December 2015.................................................................................................................................. 8 New ANS Projects............................................................................................................................................ 8 Final Actions on American National Standards...............................................................................................10 Draft IEC & ISO Standards............................................................................................................................. 11 Recently Published IEC & ISO Documents.....................................................................................................12 TSP Meeting Schedule................................................................................................................................... 13 Investors in Innovation.................................................................................................................................... 14 ANSI Approves Two Control Protocols Standards, Withdrawal of Another On September 25, ANSI's Board of Standards Review approved the reaffirmation of the 2010 edition of ANSI E1.30-4, EPI 26, Device Description Language (DDL) Extensions for DMX512 and E1.31 Devices, and the revised version of ANSI E1.37-2, Entertainment Technology - Additional Message Sets for ANSI E1.20 (RDM) - Part 2, IPv4 & DNS Configuration Messages. Both will be published soon—definitely in time for Holiday gift-giving! ANSI E1.30-4 – 2010 (R2015) will be substantively the same as the 2010 version, so there is nothing to anxiously await there, but the current version of E1.37-2 is buggy, so the new version of that will be an improvement. On October 8, the Board of Standards Review approved the withdrawal of ANSI E1.45 - 2013, Unidirectional Transport of IEEE 802 data frames over ANSI E1.11 (DMX512-A). The ANSI E1.45 has been withdrawn because it does not comply with PLASA's patent policy, which states that we do not intend to publish any standard that contains protected intellectual property unless that property can be licensed by anyone for a reasonable fee on a non-discriminatory basis. There are patents, issued in Korea and in the United States, that cover key parts of the standard. We do not have satisfactory assurance from the holder of the patents, the Electronic Telecommunications Research Institute, that licensing is available for a reasonable fee on a non-discriminatory basis. Therefore, we have withdrawn the standard. Volume 19, Number 19 Page 1 The key parts of the standard that are protected by Korean and US patents, and that triggered this withdrawal are the data fragmentation and error detection. You can find DMX512 data fragmentation and error detection in the Alternate START Codes 01h and 04h, registered well over two decades ago and listed at http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/working_groups/CP/DMXAlternateCodes.php, but now there are patents on some methods using these techniques. Anyone wishing to transport IEEE 802 data frames larger than an E1.11 data frame, or to implement a method of error detection should check whether they need to negotiate with ETRI. Wahoo! Texas Plugfest Returns The next PLASA Control Protocols Plugfest will be held Friday 29 January 29 through Monday 1 February 2016 at the Marriott Solana in Westlake, TX, near the Dallas-Forth Worth Airport. That's next year, but it is not too early for product developers to make plans to attend with new equipment they want to test. Plugfests are informal gatherings that give developers an opportunity to check their product's interoperability with a wide variety of other devices using PLASA North America's protocols. Usually problems can be spotted and sorted out over a weekend, with engineers and technicians sharing protocol implementation tips. The Plugfest will be held in conjunction with the TSP working group and task group meetings at the same hotel. The schedule is still in the works, but when it is finalized it will be posted at http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/meetings/index.php. Answers to questions and further information can be found at the Control Protocol Forums, http://www.rdmprotocol.org/forums/, or by emailing s [email protected]. Registration is not required, but please send a note if you plan to bring a lot of equipment or large equipment. Space is limited. WTO Technical Barrier to Trade Notifications The U.S. Department of Commerce's service, Notify U.S., recently has announced WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notices that may be of interest to Standards News readers. If you have a problem with these notices, you can protest through your representative to the WTO. In the US, that is NIST ([email protected]). See http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ for European TBT objections. Mexico Notification MEX/292 Date issued: 16 September 2015 Agency responsible: Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL) National inquiry point: Direccion General de Normas (DGN) Products covered: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles (Chapter 85) Title: Proposed draft decision establishing guidelines for the accreditation, designation and recognition of testing laboratories Description of content: The notified guidelines contain provisions on infrastructure, telecommunications and broadcasting established by the Federal Telecommunications Institute, and requirements and procedures concerning the accreditation, designation and recognition of testing laboratories in the territory of the United Mexican States. Objective and rationale: The notified guidelines seek to establish requirements and procedures for: · Accreditation, by the Federal Telecommunications Institute, of national third-party testing laboratories responsible for the testing and conformity assessment of infrastructure and telecommunications and broadcasting equipment, in accordance with standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005 (General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories), the technical regulations on infrastructure and telecommunications and broadcasting equipment of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law and, where appropriate, the relevant mutual recognition agreement. · Approval, by the Federal Telecommunications Institute, of accreditation bodies responsible for accrediting national third-party testing laboratories in respect of technical regulations on infrastructure and telecommunications and broadcasting equipment. Volume 19, Number 19 Page 2 · Designation, by the Federal Telecommunications Institute, of national third-party testing laboratories responsible for testing and assessing the conformity of telecommunications and broadcasting equipment with foreign technical regulations. · Recognition, by the Federal Telecommunications Institute, of foreign third-party testing laboratories designated by a designating authority of a foreign government; recognition of their competence to carry out conformity assessment and to accept