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[802.3_400G] May Interim - Agenda and Call for Presentations



Dear Study Group Members,

The IEEE 802.3 400 Gb/s Ethernet Study Group will be meeting Friday, May 17 during the IEEE 802.3 Interim Session being held in Victoria, BC, Canada.  

                                                                                         

The Study Group will be meeting all day Friday until 6pm.  Please consider this when making your travel arrangements.  Registration and meeting details may be found at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e6krq0eq4e4c52ce&llr=bqlaqkgab

 

You are strongly encouraged to make your reservations as soon as possible.  The deadline for advanced Web registration for these sessions is April 19, 2013.  Also, please note that a discounted room rate of $169 (CAD), exclusive of taxes, is offered at The Fairmont Empress until 12-April at 6pm Pacific Time, based on availability within the room block.

 

The motion chartering the formation of the Study Group is as follows

  Move the IEEE 802.3 Working Group authorizes the formation of a study group for “400 Gb/s Ethernet.”

 

Therefore, the agenda for the meeting will be to begin the study of 400 Gb/s Ethernet and process-related level-setting.

 

Presentations on the following areas would be highly recommended:

·         Objectives for the Study Group
·          5 Criteria 
o    Broad Market Potential
o    Economic Feasibility 
o    Technical Feasibility
o    Distinct Identity
o    Compatibility

 

Anyone wishing to present, please provide the following information (per Procedure for Presenters web page:

http://www.ieee802.org/3/400GSG/public/presentproc.html.  

 

Name of presenter

Title of presentation

Length of time requested (this should include time for questions and answers)

Brief description of topic

 

Presentations should be kept to 20minutes 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 requestor should contact the chair prior to making the request to justify the additional time.  Please note that as this is our SG’s first meeting I will be prioritizing process-related level setting presentations.

 

Furthermore, I encourage individuals to use the Study Group reflector to reach out to others in the spirit of consensus building.  As acting chair, I will reserve the right to introduce individuals making similar topic requests in the continuing spirit of this encouragement.

 

Requests for presentation time must be made two Fridays preceding the meeting.  For the May Interim meeting, requests for presentation time shall be made to me at jdambrosia@xxxxxxxx  and must be made by May 3, 2013.  The presenter shall e-mail a PDF, soft-copy version of the presentation to me at jdambrosia@xxxxxxxx by Tuesday of the week preceding the meeting.  For the May Interim, presentations must be submitted by May 7, 2013. 

 

As a reminder, 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. 

 

All individuals submitting presentations should review the Procedures for Presenters Page   http://www.ieee802.org/3/400GSG/public/presentproc.html.

 

I would greatly appreciate presenters reviewing their own presentations to verify that they have followed the cited Presentation Style Guidelines.

 

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:

 

Title: Title of presentation

Author: Name(s) of author(s)

Subject: IEEE 802.3 400 Gb/s Ethernet Study Group

 

As a reminder to the group, we are a contribution driven organization.   It should not be assumed by anyone that work will just get done without contributions to drive it.  Areas not moving forward will be brought to the attention of the Study Group for consideration on how to address.  . 

 

I look forward to seeing everyone in Victoria!

 

Best Regards,

 

John D’Ambrosia

Acting Chair, IEEE 802.3 400 Gb/s Ethernet Study Group

Tel:       717.503.4512

Email    jdambrosia@xxxxxxxx