[802.3_DIALOG] IEEE 802.3 March 2018 plenary meeting announcement

["Law, David" <dlaw@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,

IEEE 802.3 will meet Monday 5th March through Thursday 8th March 2018 in Rosemont, IL, USA. The IEEE 802.3 meetings are scheduled to occur in the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Rosemont, IL, USA. As always, the IEEE 802 LMSC session announcement, registration and current hotel information can be found through the 'Next IEEE 802 Plenary session notice' link on our home web page <www.ieee802.org/3>. To receive email updates and reminders for the plenary sessions, subscribe to the stds-802-ALL reflector <http://listserv.ieee.org>.

The IEEE 802.3 Working Group (WG) opening plenary meeting will begin at 10:00 on Monday 5th March, and the IEEE 802.3 WG closing plenary meeting will begin at 13:00 on Thursday 8th March. Task Force (TF), Study Group (SG), standing committee and any appropriate ad hoc meetings will be scheduled between the opening and closing IEEE 802.3 meetings as illustrated in our typical schedule also found on our web site <http://www.ieee802.org/3/plenary.html>. The draft agenda, as well as liaison letters received so far, are available in the minutes area <http://www.ieee802.org/3/minutes/mar18/index.html> and will be updated as required prior to the meeting. The agenda will be approved at the meeting.

We will gather two records of attendance, the attendance tracking tool and attendance books in each meeting. The attendance tool will be the only official record of attendance for building and maintaining WG membership. The meeting attendance books will be used to record the attendance in the minutes for each meeting and it is important that you review these minutes to make sure your attendance is recorded correctly as this will be the backup should there be an issue with the attendance tool.

Attendance credit toward membership requires attendance at three of the four days of the IEEE 802.3 session, independent of how long a particular subgroupmight be meeting. The attendance tracking tool will only allow sign in on Monday at the opening IEEE 802.3 plenary and on Thursday at the closing IEEE 802.3 plenary meeting (not during the Monday afternoon or Thursday morning meetings). A number of WG decisions are expected during the IEEE 802.3 meetings (most on Thursday during the closing meeting). Depending on the amount of discussion, the Thursday closing meeting may run beyond our target 18h00 ending time, so please plan your travel accordingly. Additional subgroup information follows.

I look forward to seeing you in Rosemont, IL, USA.

David Law
  Chair, IEEE 802.3 Working Group
  dlaw@xxxxxxx
  +44 1631 563729


IEEE 802.3 Business (Mon morning & Thu afternoon)
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Working Group Home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/index.html>

In addition to regular Working Group business, there will be Task Force and Study Group business based on the status below, as well as a Call for Interest. 

As this is the first plenary session of an even numbered year, IEEE 802 officer elections will also take place. For the IEEE 802.3 Working Group, this will be for the positions of Chair and Vice-Chair of the Working Group.


IEEE 802.3 Maintenance Task Force
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Task Force Home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/maint/index.html>

The Maintenance Task Force will be considering new maintenance requests, reviewing the status of outstanding maintenance requests, and progressing IEEE 802.3 adoptions by ISO/IEC SC6 under the PSDO agreement.

The Maintenance Task Force is also progressing a revision project, IEEE P802.3 (IEEE 802.3cj) Maintenance #12 (revision), to revise IEEE Std 802.3-2015. This revision project is necessary to meet IEEE-SA requirement to enable future amendments to be considered for approval as IEEE Standards. The Maintenance Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 1st Sponsor recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3 (IEEE 802.3cj) Maintenance #12 (revision) draft D3.1 that is expected to close prior to the meeting. With the revision project near to completing Sponsor ballot it is expected that the Task Force will request conditional approval to proceed to RevCom submittal.

Questions about maintenance activities can be addressed to the Maintenance Task Force Chair, Mr Adam Healey.


IEEE P802.3bs 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/bs/index.html>

IEEE Std 802.3bs IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 10: Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers, and Management Parameters for 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Operation was published on 12th December 2017. As a result the work of the IEEE P802.3bs Task Force is now complete and awards for this project will be presented at the IEEE 802.3 closing plenary on Thursday 8th March 2018.


IEEE P802.3bt DTE Power via MDI over 4-Pair Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/bt/index.html>

This will be the twenty-eighth meeting of the IEEE P802.3bt DTE Power via MDI over 4-Pair Task Force. The DTE Power via MDI over 4-Pair Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 3rd Sponsor recirculation ballot of DTE Power via MDI over 4-Pair draft D3.3 that is due to close prior to the meeting.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Chad Jones.


IEEE P802.3ca 25 Gb/s, 50 Gb/s, and 100 Gb/s Passive Optical Networks Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/ca/index.html>

This will be the sixteenth meeting of the IEEE P802.3ca 25 Gb/s, 50 Gb/s, and 100 Gb/s Passive Optical Networks Task Force. The IEEE P802.3ca Task Force continues to work on selection of a set of baseline proposals to satisfy the project objectives, progressing towards a technically complete draft for working group ballot.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Curtis Knittle.


IEEE P802.3cb 2.5 Gb/s and 5 Gb/s Operation over Backplane Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/cb/index.html>

This will be the eighteenth meeting of the IEEE P802.3cb 2.5 Gb/s and 5 Gb/s Operation over Backplane Task Force. The 2.5 Gb/s and 5 Gb/s Operation over Backplane Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 3rd Sponsor recirculation ballot of 2.5 Gb/s and 5 Gb/s Operation over Backplane draft D3.3 that is due to close prior to the meeting. With the project near to completing Sponsor ballot it is expected that the Task Force will request conditional approval to proceed to RevCom submittal.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Dan Smith.


IEEE P802.3cc 25 Gb/s Ethernet over Single-Mode Fiber Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cc/index.html>

IEEE Std 802.3cc IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 11: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for Serial 25 Gb/s Ethernet Operation Over Single-Mode Fiber 15th January 2018. As a result the work of the IEEE P802.3cc Task Force is now complete and awards for this project will be presented at the IEEE 802.3 closing plenary on Thursday 8th March 2018.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr David Lewis.


IEEE P802.3cd 50 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s, and 200 Gb/s Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cd/index.html>

This will be the twelfth meeting of the IEEE P802.3cd 50 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s, and 200 Gb/s Ethernet Task Force. The 50 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s, and 200 Gb/s Ethernet Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 1st Sponsor recirculation ballot of 50 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s, and 200 Gb/s Ethernet draft D3.1 that is expected to close prior to the meeting.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Mark Nowell.


IEEE P802.3.2 (IEEE 802.3cf) YANG Data Model Definitions Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cf/index.html>

This will be the seventh meeting of the IEEE P802.3.2 (IEEE 802.3cf) YANG Data Model Definitions Task Force.  The YANG Data Model Definitions Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the Initial Working Group ballot of YANG Data Model Definitions draft D2.0 that is due to close prior to the meeting.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Ms Yan Zhuang.


IEEE 802.3cg 10 Mb/s Single Twisted Pair Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cg/index.html>

This will be the eighth meeting of the IEEE 802.3cg 10 Mb/s Single Twisted Pair Ethernet Task Force. The IEEE 802.3cg Task Force continues to work on selection of a set of baseline proposals to satisfy the project objectives, as well as draft development, progressing towards a technically complete draft for working group ballot. The IEEE 802.3cg Task Force will be in comment resolution on comments received on the 2nd Task Force review of IEEE 802.3cg draft D1.1 that will close prior to the meeting.

In addition the Task Force has developed and approved, in conjunction with the IEEE 802.3 10 Mb/s Backplane Ethernet Study Group, the draft IEEE 802.3cg Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 10 Mb/s Operation and Associated Power Delivery over a Single Balanced Pair of Conductors PAR modification request, as well as supporting CSD and objectives. See the IEEE 802.3 10 Mb/s Backplane Ethernet Study Group item below for further details.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr George Zimmerman.


IEEE P802.3ch Multi-Gig Automotive Ethernet Task Force Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/ch/index.html>

This will be the sixth meeting of the IEEE P802.3ch Multi-Gig Automotive Ethernet Task Force Task Force. The IEEE P802.3ch Task Force continues to work on selection of a set of baseline proposals to satisfy the project objectives, progressing towards a technically complete draft for working group ballot. 

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Steve Carlson.


IEEE 802.3 Beyond 10 km Optical PHYs Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/B10K/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE 802.3 Beyond 10 km Optical PHYs Study Group.  The study group continues to work on developing a PAR, CSD and objectives.

Questions about the Study Group can be addressed to the Study Group Chair, Mr John D'Ambrosia.


IEEE 802.3 10 Mb/s Backplane Ethernet Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/10BPE/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE 802.3 10 Mb/s Backplane Ethernet Study Group. The Study Group has developed and approved, in conjunction with the IEEE P802.3cg Task Force, the draft IEEE 802.3cg Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 10 Mb/s Operation and Associated Power Delivery over a Single Balanced Pair of Conductors PAR modification request, as well as supporting CSD and objectives. The draft PAR, CSD and objectives are pending IEEE 802.3 Working Group approval at this meeting prior to seeking approval of both the PAR and CSD by the IEEE 802 LMSC Executive committee. The draft PAR, CSD and objectives can be accessed as follows:

Draft PAR modification request: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/18/ec-18-0013-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3cg-draft-par-modification-request.pdf>
Draft modified CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/18/ec-18-0014-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3cg-draft-csd-modifications.pdf>
Draft objectives: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/cg/public/Jan2018/jones_10spe_10bpe_04_0118_d7.pdf>

Questions about the Study Group can be addressed to the Study Group Chair, Mr. Jon Lewis.


IEEE 802.3 100 Gb/s per Lane Electrical Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/100GEL/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE 802.3 100 Gb/s per Lane Electrical Study Group. The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE 802.3ck Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s electrical interfaces based on 100 Gb/s signaling PAR, as well as supporting CSD and objectives. The draft PAR, CSD and objectives are pending IEEE 802.3 Working Group approval at this meeting prior to seeking approval of both the PAR and CSD by the IEEE 802 LMSC Executive committee. The draft PAR, CSD and objectives can be accessed as follows:

Draft PAR: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/18/ec-18-0015-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3ck-draft-par.pdf>
Draft CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/18/ec-18-0016-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3ck-draft-csd.pdf>
Draft objectives: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/100GEL/P802_3ck_Objectives_2018jan.pdf>

Questions about the Study Group can be addressed to the Study Group Chair, Ms. Elizabeth Kochuparambil.


IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.3 Next-generation 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s MMF PHYs Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/NGMMF/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.3 Next-generation 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s MMF PHYs Study Group. The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE 802.3cm Standard for Ethernet: Amendment Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 400 Gb/s over Multimode Fiber PAR, as well as supporting CSD and objectives. The draft PAR, CSD and objectives are pending IEEE 802.3 Working Group approval at this meeting prior to seeking approval of both the PAR and CSD by the IEEE 802 LMSC Executive committee. The draft PAR, CSD and objectives can be accessed as follows:

Draft PAR: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/18/ec-18-0017-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3cm-draft-par.pdf>
Draft CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/18/ec-18-0018-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3cm-draft-csd.pdf>
Draft objectives: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/NGMMF/Adopted_Objectives_NGMMF_01_23jan18.pdf>

Questions about the Study Group can be addressed to the Study Group Chair, Mr. Robert Lingle.


IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications Industry Connections Ad Hoc
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Ad Hoc home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/ad_hoc/ngrates/index.html>

The IEEE 802.3 NEA Ad Hoc will hold two session during the plenary week, one in relation to continuing the discussion regarding the PON related topics addressed during the January 2018 Interim, and one in relation to continuing the discussion regarding Switch Latency in Industrial Networks.

Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr John D'Ambrosia.


Bidirectional 10Gb/s and 25Gb/s optical access PHYs call for interest
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CFI page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/cfi/request_0318_1.html>

The following request for agenda time for a Bidirectional 10Gb/s and 25Gb/s optical access PHYs call for interest has been received from Frank Effenberger.

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In the past, the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group has standardized bidirectional optical PHYs running at 100Mb/s and 1Gb/s over one single mode fiber, that are intended for optical access applications.  Due to the growth of bandwidth demand, there is now a need for similar systems that run at higher speeds, such as 10 Gb/s and 25 Gb/s, over distances of at least 20 km. This Call for Interest is to assess the support for the formation of a study group to explore the development of these bidirectional PHYs.

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The call for interest will take place during the IEEE 802.3 Opening Plenary on the morning of Monday 5th March. A call for interest consensus building meeting will be scheduled to occur during the week. The vote to determine if a Study Group will be formed will take place at the IEEE 802.3 Closing Plenary on the afternoon of Thursday 8th March.


Project Authorization Requests (PARs)
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The following are the PARs from other Working Groups for consideration at the plenary. Comments are due by 18:30 on Tuesday so if there is any interest in reviewing an Ad Hoc will have to be chartered to generate and submit the comments. Participants are invited to discuss any concerns about the below PARs on the IEEE 802.3 Dialog reflector prior to the plenary meeting.

New standard PARs
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IEEE P802.1DC Quality of Service Provision by Network Systems
PAR: http://ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2018/dc-draft-PAR-0118-v03.pdf
CSD: http://ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2018/dc-draft-CSD-0118-v02.pdf

IEEE P60802 Time-Sensitive Networking Profile for Industrial Automation
PAR: http://ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2018/P60802-draft-PAR-0118-v01.pdf
CSD: http://ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2018/P60802-draft-CSD-0118-v01.pdf
Note: This is joint with IEC SC65C and thus uses IEC numbering)


Amendment PARs
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IEEE P802.1CBcv Frame Replication and Elimination for Reliability - Amendment: Information Model, YANG Data Model and Management Information Base Module
PAR: http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2017/cv-draft-PAR-1017-v03.pdf
CSD http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2017/cv-draft-CSD-0917-v01.pdf

IEEE P802.1CBdb Frame Replication and Elimination for Reliability - Amendment: Extended Stream Identification Functions 
PAR: http://ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2018/db-draft-PAR-0118-v02.pdf
CSD: http://ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2018/db-draft-CSD-0118-v01.pdf

IEEE P802.1Qcz Bridges and Bridged Networks - Amendment: Congestion Isolation
PAR: http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2018/new-dcb-congdon-draft-congestion-isolation-PAR-0118-v04.pdf
CSD: http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2018/new-dcb-congdon-draft-congestion-isolation-CSD-0118-v02.pdf

IEEE P802.11bb Light Communications
PAR: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1604-08-00lc-a-par-proposal-for-light-communications.docx
CSD: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1603-07-00lc-a-csd-proposal-for-light-communications.docx

IEEE P802.15.4w Low Power Wide Area (LPWA)
PAR: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/18/15-18-0050-03-0000-802-15-4w-par-draft.pdf
CSD: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/18/15-18-0053-02-lpwa-csd-for-802-15-4w-lpwan-phy.docx

IEEE P802.15.4x: Field Area Network Enhancements (FANE)
PAR: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/17/15-17-0624-04-fane-fane-proposed-par.pdf
CSD: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/17/15-17-0622-03-fane-proposed-fane-csd.docx

IEEE P802.15.4y Security Next Generation (SECN)
PAR: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/18/15-18-0037-03-secn-draft-par-for-4y.pdf
CSD: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/18/15-18-0040-04-secn-draft-csd-for-4y.docx

IEEE P802.15.4z Enhanced IR-UWB Ranging (EIR)
PAR: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/18/15-18-0059-01-0elr-802-15-4z-elr-par-draft.pdf
CSD: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/18/15-18-0036-01-0000-draft-csd-154z-elr.docx

PAR Modification request
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IEEE P802.22.2 Standard for Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Sensing
PAR modification request: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.22/dcn/18/22-18-0005-00-0003-802-22-3-par-modification.docx
CSD (unchanged): https://mentor.ieee.org/802.22/dcn/14/22-14-0061-07-0003-802-22-spectrum-characterization-and-occupancy-sensing-csd.docx


IEEE 802.3 Rules
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At present, there are no proposed rules changes.


Tutorials
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There are no tutorials at this plenary.

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