[802.3_200GMMF] Announcement: IEEE P802.3ds TF July 2026 Session: 8-9 July contingent electronic teleconference, 13 July plenary, 28 & 30 July contingent electronic teleconference

[Mabud Choudhury <mabudchoudhury@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear IEEE P802.3ds Task Force Participants,

The IEEE P802.3ds 200 Gb/s per Wavelength MMF PHYs Task Force will be holding a session for July 2026 consisting of:

• Contingent electronic teleconference meeting on Wednesday, 8 July 2026 and on Thursday, 9 July 2026, from 10 AM to 1 PM EDT (UTC -4) on both days. Registration and meeting fees for the electronic teleconference meetings on 8 – 9 July 2026 are not required. These meetings do not count towards IEEE 802.3 Working Group voting membership.
• Face-to-face meeting during the IEEE 802 July 2026 Plenary session, Montreal, Canada, on Monday, 13 July from 1:15 PM to 6 PM EDT (UTC -4), PM1 and PM2 sessions. Details regarding meeting and registration for the IEEE 802.3 July 2026 Plenary may be found at https://web.cvent.com/event/821a3656-54e3-476c-b58c-391458bbf075/summary. Please note that registration and payment of the registration fee are required for all individuals participating in the 13 July meeting (in-person or virtual). Remote access will be provided on a best effort basis. The 13 July meeting counts towards IEEE 802.3 Working Group voting membership.
• Contingent electronic teleconference meeting on Tuesday, 28 July 2026 and on Thursday, 30 July 2026, from 10 AM to 1 PM EDT (UTC -4) on both days. Please note that we may adjust the start time to 9 AM EDT if additional time is needed (TF participants will be notified if the change is required). Registration and meeting fees for the electronic teleconference meetings on 28 and 30 July 2026 are not required. These meetings do not count towards IEEE 802.3 Working Group voting membership.

The Draft Agenda for the July 2026 Session will be:

Consideration of comments submitted during the 2nd Task Force review, D1.1, and supporting contributions.

 

Note - Any presentation requests not addressing comments against the draft will be heard pending time availability.

 

Presentation Deadlines and Procedures

Requests for presentation time must be made by Tuesday 30 June 2026 AOE. Please send the presentation request to me at mabudchoudhury@xxxxxxxx and Cc Guangcan Mi at miguangcan@xxxxxxxxxx, per the presentation procedures https://ieee802.org/3/ds/public/presentproc.html (but following the deadline above)

The presenter shall email a PDF, soft-copy version of the presentation to me at  mabudchoudhury@xxxxxxxx and Cc Guangcan Mi at miguangcan@xxxxxxxxxx by Friday, 3 July 2026, 5 PM EDT (UTC -4). Please review the Procedure for Presenters web page:  https://ieee802.org/3/ds/public/presentproc.html 

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

·       Title: Title of presentation       

·       Author: Name(s) of author(s) & affiliation(s)      

·       Subject: IEEE P802.3ds 200 Gb/s per Wavelength MMF PHYs Task Force

 

Presentations that do not have the fields properly filled out will not be accepted.

 

Regarding Relative Cost Analysis

Presentations addressing relative cost analysis may require IEEE Risk management review if individuals do not follow guidelines provided in IEEE SA Anti-trust policy available at http://standards.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/antitrust.pdf.   

Further information about IEEE 802.3 cost discussion can be found in “Presentation on Cost Discussions to IEEE 802.3 Working Group” (See https://www.ieee802.org/3/100GNGOPTX/public/may12/lindsay_01_0512_optx.pdf). 

Please note that such IEEE Risk management review can take up to ~30 days. Individuals not budgeting sufficient time for review may have presentations scheduled for later meetings to allow these reviews.

IEEE SA Policies

As a reminder, all meeting participants should review the following documents before participation in an interim meeting (in-person/teleconference):       

·       IEEE SA patent policy·       

·       IEEE SA Copyright Policy·       

·       IEEE SA Participation Policy

 

All of these policies may be found at http://ieee802.org/3/policies.html.

Thanks,

 

Mabud Choudhury, 

Chair, IEEE P802.3ds Task Force

Mobile: +1 9084181593

Email: mabudchoudhury@xxxxxxxx

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