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[802.3_100GNGOPTX] Minutes Uploaded - Forward Direction

Dear Study Group Participants,

The draft minutes have been uploaded to our website at http://www.ieee802.org/3/100GNGOPTX/public/index.html. Please take a moment to review and feedback any items to Kapil Shrikhande our vice-chair.

For those who attended the Study Group meeting in Newport Beach, you are aware that we ended without a wrap-up due to a call for adjournment, second and lacking opposition, we adjourned. At the time, I felt it would be better to gather our thoughts and focus on how to move forward.

For those who did not attend, we were able to secure another objective, "Define re-timed 4-lane 100G PMA to PMA electrical interfaces for chip to chip and chip to module applications". In addition, we saw many presentations related to study for MMF and SMF objectives.

We ran a few straw-polls and essentially the outcome was that we have additional work to come to consensus on either a SMF or MMF objective. In addition, guidance was provided through the straw-polling, but it may not have been specific to making progress as a team. Rather, it was oriented towards the type of material we would like to see. So, below I will address a proposal for making forward progress using the information gleaned from our meeting.

Adhocs:

Multi-Mode ad hoc led by Jonathan King.
Single-Mode ad hoc led by Pete Anslow.

These two groups will solicit participation and meet via teleconference to:
  1. Identify a straw-man objective that can gain consensus
  2. Identify specific media/reach, market potential related to that reach based on relative cost to SR10, technical feasibility
  3. Identify presentation material that they believe will convince the SG their objective is valid.
We need to avoid getting into "baseline proposal mode" where we see our preferred alternative competing with the other alternatives. The goal of SG presentations should not be not to sell a proposal. They should be focused on demonstrating an objective meets the 5 criteria with multiple approaches.

If these two groups can pull together a compelling set of objectives, and presentations that demonstrate they meet the 5 criteria, we can then come together in March and work to identify any remaining consensus opportunities that can be worked on for the upcoming May meeting.

Presuming we can finalize our objectives, 5 criteria responses, and get our PAR completed in May, we will be ready to pre-submit and move toward a July PAR submittal.

Best Regards,

Dan Dove
Chair, IEEE 802.3 Next Generation Optical Ethernet Study Group