Thursday, November 16, 2023
ESTA's Technical Standard Program Announces Ten Draft Standards Now in Public Review
Lighting&Sound America Online - News: ESTA's Technical Standard program announces ten draft standards now in public review: Six plus a suite of four. Ten public review action items came out of the recent October Technical Standards Program working group meetings held in Westlake, TX, where over 180 attendees across 10 discreet working groups came together to move draft standards in development another step forward. All of these public reviews will end on 12 December.
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To be perfectly honest a lot of the technical information from this article went over my head, but I do think that it brings up some good points about standardization and technical standards for the entertainment industry. Oftentimes the entertainment industry is small enough and niche enough that general construction and industrial standards don’t make sense for the way in which we do things, but it is helpful for there to be some standards so that we can ensure that we can complete dangerous or complicated activities in a standardized, safe, way. An example of how standardization can be very helpful can be found in the standards for DMX 512. Before DMX came around every dimmer manufacturer had proprietary systems in order to connect dimmers with control infrastructure, but DMX allows any compliant controller to control any compliant device. This has become even more helpful in more recent times with the advent of many different brands of fixtures taking data directly to themselves. DMX has also gotten more powerful through its ability to be able to be sent over a network through systems such as SACN and Artnet.
I love reading through ESTA’s standards. I don’t know why it brings me so much enjoyment but I have been slowly making my way through them. I mostly care about the set ones just because that’s what I see and what makes sense to me as someone who works in theatrical carpentry but I still like to read a lot of them. It’s interesting to see what ESTA deems safe and I try to figure out their reasoning behind every standard. I also wonder how they decide that a standard needs to be reaffirmed. It seems as though most of these standards are from 2018 or 2019 so it could just be time, however it would make more sense if most of the standards in a specific topic were written at the same time which would mean more standards get evaluated every year. Can people nominate a standard for reevaluation? Who reevaluates it? In fact, who writes the ESTA standards in the first place? I never considered that question before just now. I imagined ESTA as this all powerful omniscient entity but the people writing the standards are just people. I wonder what their qualifications have to be.
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