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[802.3EEESG] Call for presentations - less than four weeks to the plenary



Folks,

The first meeting of the 802.3az task force will be held during the week 
of November 11-16 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.  See 
http://www.ieee802.org/meeting/index.html for meeting and registration 
information.   We are scheduled to meet Tuesday, Wednesday, and 
Thursday.  Meetings will start at 9 AM and end at approximately 5 PM 
except Thursday, which will end at noon.  Presentations should be 
focused on proposals as we work towards developing a baseline.  My goal 
is to adopt the baseline set of proposals at the end of the March 2008 
meeting, which should be achievable if we get off to a good start at 
this meeting.

I mentioned to a few of you that we might have a conference call after 
the Seoul meeting, but after considering the idea further, I decided 
that wouldn't necessarily be the most productive use of our time.  We're 
still in the state of not being able to make binding decisions.  
Instead, I think we should use the reflector to discuss what needs to be 
done.  Here's a list of questions to be answered regarding things we 
need to work on ( it's not comprehensive, so if you think of something 
else, please add to it and contribute):

What is the maximum transition time?
What are the alternatives to frame-based communication to cause speed 
changes?
How do we achieve transparency with upper layers?
How will a EEE PHY communicate with the control policy?
How much energy will be used by a "fast start" PHY?
How much energy will be used by a "subset" PHY?
What metrics should we use to measure energy use?

Just an observation, but we do not have an objective for "0BASE-T".  We 
do have an objective to reduce the transmit amplitude requirement for 
10BASE-T PHYs.

Prospective presenters may submit your request per the guidelines at the 
Procedure for Presenters web page:

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/eee_study/public/presentproc.html

Presentation requests and materials are due to me by *Wednesday, 
November 7th*.  Presentations should be mailed to me at 
mjbennett@ieee.org.   Early requests and submissions are appreciated.  
Please remember that any requests for time or submissions of 
presentation material containing restrictive notices will be rejected.

Regards,

Mike

-- 
Michael J. Bennett
Unconfirmed Chair, IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet Task Force
Tel. 510.486.7913