Six ESTA TSP standards approved
Monday, 17 May 2021
All six documents are available on the ESTA TSP website for download
USA - On 5 May, ANSI s Board of Standards Review approved two ESTA documents as American National Standards. The following day, ANSI s BSR approved four more. All six are now published and available on the ESTA TSP website for download at no cost at http://tsp.esta.org/freestandards. You also may buy them from ANSI and IHS Markit for $40 each.
ANSI E1.2 – 2021, Entertainment Technology - Design, Manufacture and Use of Aluminum Trusses and Towers describes what the title says, and also the associated aluminium structural components, such as head blocks, sleeve blocks, bases, and corner blocks, used in the entertainment industry in portable structures. It s a revision of and supersedes the previous version.
Melanie Steinlage, principal of West Creek Elementary Principal
Steinlage replaces Lynne Rains, who is transitioning to Barkers Mill Elementary as principal.
Steinlage has served as assistant principal at Byrns Darden Elementary School since 2018. Previously, she has served as an academic coach at Byrns Darden and Hazelwood elementary schools and a teacher at Hazelwood Elementary. During her tenure with CMCSS, which dates back to 2010, Steinlage has also served as a site-based induction specialist and on several school and district-level committees.
She earned her M.S. in Educational Leadership K-12 from the University of Tennessee Martin and her B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of South Florida. Steinlage completed the McREL Balanced Leadership Training for Administrators, as well as several Kagan Professional Development workshops.
For my next trick, disappearing LOA Disclosures!
I’ve written here before about the broad adverse effects of the 2015 IEEE patent-devaluing policy. In September this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) also picked up on these effects in a supplemental business review letter to IEEE, noting the “dampened enthusiasm for the IEEE process”, the significant increase in negative Letters of Assurance (LoAs) and ANSI’s decline to approve IEEE-802.11ah and 802.11ai as American National Standards (ANSs) (see page 9).
Given these set-backs and express challenge by DOJ, one would think that IEEE would drop its one-sided 2015 patent policy and replace it with a balanced one such as those applied by other standards development organizations (SDOs). However, interestingly, it appears that IEEE staff is pushing for an arrangement that would help the organization conceal negative LOAs from ANSI’s accreditation and approval body.