This standards meeting round was held as an online event. The working group meetings were held 6th - 10th October, with a plenary on 20th October. The associated convention will then follow – 23rd to 25th October at Long Beach Convention Center – details here.
The IABM has produced a report of the standards meetings that can be downloaded from this webpage (member login required). Below is a short Executive Summary of the meeting round. Unfortunately, the AES Standards work has continued to suffer considerable disruption due to an updating of the AES website without support for the many Standards resources it used to provide. Fortunately, replacement services are beginning to appear, though some services - such as the very important AES Standards store - continue to be badly impaired.
A project is underway to standardize the transport of high quality audio on UWB networks to promote interoperability. The benefit of using UWB is high resolution and very low latency. An application area is wireless microphones in live performance because it has proved highly robust. The AES document will specify how the IEEE standard for UWB needs to be configured for interoperable audio transport.
There are also some projects in the Audio Applications of Networks working group:
Open Control Architecture (OCA, AES70). This audio control and monitoring suite of standards has three core parts and one adaptation that are published. AES70 is becoming popular as a control protocol for audio applications but does not include video control, preventing it being a contender for our industry generally.
- A document on using AES70 for managing AES67 and SMPTE ST 2110-30 Media Stream Connections is about to go out for public Call-for-Comment period. Publication will follow.
- A document to add JSON protocol for AES70 (in addition to the existing Binary protocol) is also about to go out for public Call-for-Comment period. Publication will follow.
- Another NEW document is underway for using AES70 to manage Audinate Dante R connections.
