[802.3_100GNGOPTX] March 2014 (Bejing) Plenary Meeting Information and Call for Presentations

[Dan Dove <dan.dove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Task Force Participants,

Meeting Information:

The IEEE P802.3bm Task Force will be meeting at the IEEE 802.3 March Plenary Meeting, which will  be held the week of March 16th in Bejing, PRC.  The Task Force will be meeting Tuesday through Thursday with a 12pm finish on Thursday. The final schedule for our meeting will depend upon workload and progress made at the meeting.

Registration and meeting details may be found at http://802world.org/plenary/.  You are strongly encouraged to make your reservations as soon as possible. Please note the webpage – http://802world.org/plenary/registration-information/

·         Hotel Sleeping Room group rate has been extended- please reserve your room immediately.
 
Be sure to secure your Visa for entry into China if you have not already done so.

Call For Presentations:

As you are aware, we have produced draft 2.1 and are in our first Working Group Recirculation Ballot. Our time during the upcoming Plenary week will be spent managing comments, and then preparing for draft 2.2 and we may be seeking conditional approval to go to Sponsor Ballot..

Please note if you are intending to give a presentation in support of a suggested remedy (or provide any supplemental material) for any comments, please indicate this in the “Suggested Remedy” field in your comment submission.  Please note that formal requests for presentation time must be made to the Chief Editor and to the Chair.  Presentations related to comment resolution should be kept to less than 20 minutes in duration, excluding time for questions and answers.  Requests for presentation time greater than 20 minutes will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and the requester should contact the chair prior to making the request to justify the additional time. 

Requests for presentation time must be made before the second Friday preceding the meeting.  For the upcoming meeting, requests for presentation time shall be made to me at dan_dove@xxxxxxxx  and must be made by midnight AOE on March 7th, 2014. 

The presenter shall e-mail a PDF, soft-copy version of the presentation to me at dan_dove@xxxxxxxx by Tuesday of the week preceding the meeting.  For the upcoming meeting, presentations must be submitted by midnight AOE on March 11th, 2014.  Please copy our vice-chair, Kapil Shrikhande <kapils@xxxxxxxx>  and our Chief Editor, Pete Anslow <panslow@xxxxxxxxxx> on your requests and presentation submittal.

Please make sure that all requests for presentations or submissions of presentation material have no restrictive notices at the bottom of the email.  All such emails will be refused and requests / presentations will not be acknowledged.

For your presentation request, please include the following;

Title of Presentation
Abstract
Time Requested
Presenter, Affiliation
Co-Author(s), Affiliation(s)

We would greatly appreciate presenters reviewing their own presentations to verify that they have followed the cited Presentation Style Guidelines. If there are questions related to relative cost discussion, please see the presentation by IEEE counsel at http://www.ieee802.org/3/100GNGOPTX/public/may12/lindsay_01_0512_optx.pdf and contact me if there are additional questions.

Also, to support the web site search tool used by the IEEE P802.3 web site the 'Document Information' fields of the PDF file must be completed as follows:

Filename: presenterlastname_nn_mmyy_optx.pdf
Title: Title of presentation
Author: Name(s) of author(s)
Subject: IEEE P802.3bm 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Fiber Optic Task Force

I am looking forward to seeing you in Bejing.

Best Regards,
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Dan Dove
Chair, IEEE p802.3bm Task Force