The RDS Forum has collaborated with the IEC on updating the RDS standard. More than 200 million new RDS radios made now per year certainly make this an attractive task with the view to support also the future of RDS for the next decade to come.
Have a look at this presentation, which quickly lets you know, what is going to change.
Compatibility with existing receivers will of course be maintained.
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The updated IEC RDS standard version IEC 62106 Edition 2 can now be purchased on the internet from the IEC webstore
Enter into the search field the IEC reference 62106.
The newly updated RDS Technical Specification (September 2008), submitted as a draft for the new standard version IEC 62106 Edition 2 is available now as a PDF.
The RDS Forum invites you to review it and send your observations back.
Note that you will need a password to open it and you will not be able to print it on paper, for copyright reasons.
You can get your password for free, if you request it by email from here.