ATSC Standards Update: The Latest Version of A/300 Approved
The latest version of A/300, “ATSC 3.0 System,” has been approved and will be published soon. Officially known as A/300:2023-03, this Standard is the central document of ATSC 3.0, presiding over the entire suite of Standards and Recommended Practices that together comprise the full system. A/300 normatively references a particular version of each of the other standards, and each referenced document is interoperable with the others. This allows product developers to address a particular version of A/300 in a given product release, which is important for communication with customers and for interoperability with other products.
Another element of the annual update of A/300 is an update of references in and to other ATSC Standards and Recommended Practices. This step results in updated versions of all documents in the ATSC 3.0 suite, thereby keeping each internally consistent with the remainder of the suite. The updated documents will be published soon.
ATSC’s goal is to update A/300 annually. The balance between stability and evolution suggests that an annual cadence is a good target. This cadence is just that: a target. More frequent updates are possible if needed, and if no changes are merited, then a given version of A/300 could run for more than a year. A/300:2023-03 is the fifth version of A/300 that employs the versioning strategy.
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