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Reaffirmation of ANSI E1.3-2001, Entertainment Technology - Lighting Control Systems - 0 to 10V Analog Control Specification. The Control Protocols Working Group voted to start the job of reaffirming the existing ANSI standard for analog control at its meeting on November 10. ANSI E1.3-2001 is approaching its fifth birthday and action needs to be taken to keep the document active and in the ANSI catalog. The standard has been useful as a lowest common denominator control method for connecting a variety of controlers andcontrolled products. No one makes a big deal about analog control, but it is still being used on new and custom products. No changes in the existing standard are proposed at this time, but a forth-coming public review may yield some comments that will require the document to be revised.
New standard, E1.30-200x, Application level equipment interoperability for control of commonly encountered entertainment technology devices using E1.17. The Control Protocols Working Group's E1.17 (ACN) control protocol project is approaching completion, but there is a need to continue to develop equipment interoperability profiles to be used in conjunction with it. This BSR E1.30 specification will consist of a set of Interoperability Profiles defining standard DMP device types using device description templates written in DDL. Additional motivational text will be included to aid understanding for newcomers to E1.17.
New standard, E1.31-200x, Lightweight streaming protocol for transport of DMX512 using ACN. The Control Protocols Working Group's E1.17 (ACN) control protocol project is approaching completion, but there is a need to develop a minimal subset of DMP operating at the ACN root layer for streaming data for very lightweight devices. In a nutshell, this is what most people would call "DMX512 over Ethernet," but done in such a way that it will work with the E1.17 suite of protocols and other well-behaved Ethernet protocols. Device Management Protocol over Session Data Transport provides an elegant mechanism for streaming DMX-type data intermixed with more random access data and high speed feedback in a flexible and highly scalable way. Doing this work as a separate standard from the rest of E1.17 (ACN) will allow E1.17 to move forward more quickly.
New standard, E1.29-200x, Product Safety Standard for Theatrical Fog Generators that Create Aerosols of Aqueous Solutions of Glycol or Glycerin, or Aerosols of Highly Refined Alkane Mineral Oil. The Fog and Smoke Working Group voted to start a project to write a product safety standard for theatrical fog generators. At this time, there is no product safety standard used by Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories that is specifically written for theatrical fog generators. NRTLs use standards written for other products, such as electrical heating appliances or humidifiers, and apply these as appropriate to fog machines.
