[802.3_DIALOG] March 2019 plenary meeting announcement

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

Dear Colleagues,

IEEE 802.3 will meet Monday 11th March through Thursday 14th March 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The IEEE 802.3 meetings are scheduled to occur in the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada. As always, the IEEE 802 LMSC session announcement, registration and current hotel information can be found through the 'Next IEEE 802.3 meeting 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 <https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=stds-802-ALL&A=1>.

The IEEE 802.3 Working Group (WG) opening plenary meeting will begin at 10:00 on Monday 11th March, and the IEEE 802.3 WG closing plenary meeting will begin at 13:00 on Thursday 14th 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/mar19/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 subgroup might 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 Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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


IEEE 802.3 Business
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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.


IEEE P802.3ca 25 Gb/s and 50 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 twentieth meeting of the IEEE P802.3ca 25 Gb/s and 50 Gb/s Passive Optical Networks Task Force. The IEEE P802.3ca Task Force will be in comment resolution on comments received on the 6th Task Force review of IEEE P802.3ca draft D1.5 that will close prior to the meeting.

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


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 fifteenth meeting of the IEEE P802.3.2 (IEEE 802.3cf) YANG Data Model Definitions Task Force. The 2nd Sponsor recirculation ballot on IEEE P802.3.2 (IEEE 802.3cf) closed on 2nd February 2019. The ballot exceeded the required 75% for consensus to approve the draft, and no comments were received. It is therefore expected that a request will be made at the March 2019 IEEE 802.3 plenary meeting to progress this project to RevCom submittal. Since the submittal deadline for the next RevCom meeting is prior to the plenary, the draft will be pre-submitted to RevCom. This is on the understanding that failure to obtain the necessary approvals at the plenary will result in the immediate withdrawal of the submittal from the RevCom agenda.

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


IEEE P802.3cg 10 Mb/s Single Pair Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cg/index.html>

This will be the fifteenth meeting of the IEEE P802.3cg 10 Mb/s Single Pair Ethernet Task Force. The 10 Mb/s Single Pair Ethernet Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 4th Working Group recirculation ballot of 10 Mb/s Single Pair Ethernet draft D2.4 planned to close prior to the meeting. With the project near to completing Working Group ballot it is expected that the Task Force will request conditional, or unconditional, approval to proceed to Sponsor ballot.

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


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

This will be the twelfth meeting of the IEEE P802.3ch Multi-Gig Automotive Ethernet PHY Task Force. The IEEE P802.3ch Task Force will be in comment resolution on comments received on the 2nd Task Force review of IEEE P802.3ch draft D1.1 that will close prior to the meeting.

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


IEEE P802.3ck 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Electrical Interfaces Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/ck/index.html>

This will be the sixth meeting of the IEEE P802.3ck 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Electrical Interfaces Task Force. The IEEE P802.3ck 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, Ms Elizabeth Kochuparambil.


IEEE P802.3cm 400 Gb/s over Multimode Fiber Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cm/index.html>

This will be the sixth meeting of the IEEE P802.3cm 400 Gb/s over Multimode Fiber Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cm Task Force will be in comment resolution on comments received on the 3rd Task Force review of IEEE P802.3cm draft D1.2 that will close prior to the meeting.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Robert Lingle.


IEEE P802.3cn 50 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s over greater than 10 km of SMF Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cn/index.html>

This will be the third meeting of the IEEE P802.3cn 50Gb/s, 200Gb/s, and 400Gb/s over greater than 10 km of SMF Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cn Task Force will be in comment resolution on comments received on the 1st Task Force review of IEEE P802.3cn draft D1.0 that will close prior to the meeting. The IEEE P802.3cn draft D1.0 will also be submitted for Working Group preview in preparation for a request to proceed to Working Group ballot.

The IEEE P802.3cn PAR modification request was approved 8th February 2019. The Former 100Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Operation over DWDM Systems portion of the IEEE P802.3cn project has been removed from the IEEE P802.3cn PAR and placed in the new IEEE P802.3ct amendment PAR.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr John D'Ambrosia.


IEEE P802.3cp Bidirectional 10 Gb/s, 25 Gb/s, and 50 Gb/s Optical Access PHYs Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cp/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE P802.3cp Bidirectional 10 Gb/s, 25 Gb/s, and 50 Gb/s Optical Access PHYs Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cp 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 Frank Effenberger.


IEEE P802.3cq Power over Ethernet over 2 Pairs (Maintenance #13) Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cq/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE P802.3cq Power over Ethernet over 2 Pairs (Maintenance #13) Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cq Task Force will be in comment resolution on comments received on the 2nd Task Force review of IEEE P802.3cq draft D1.1 that will close prior to the meeting.

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


IEEE P802.3cr Isolation (Maintenance #14) Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cr/index.html>

This will be the third meeting of the IEEE P802.3cr Isolation (Maintenance #14) Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cr 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 Jon Lewis.


IEEE P802.3cs Increased-reach Ethernet optical subscriber access (Super-PON) Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cs/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE P802.3cs Increased-reach Ethernet optical subscriber access (Super-PON) Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cs 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 Claudio DeSanti.


IEEE P802.3ct 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s over DWDM systems Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/ct/index.html>

This will be the first meeting of the IEEE P802.3ct 100Gb/s and 400Gb/s over DWDM systems Task Force. The former 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Operation over DWDM Systems portion of IEEE P802.3cn project has been removed from the IEEE P802.3cn PAR and placed in this project. The IEEE P802.3ct Task Force will start 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 John D'Ambrosia.


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 one session during the plenary week in relation to continuing the discussion regarding the Automotive Optical Multigig.

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


IEEE 802.3 100 Gb/s per lane optical PHYs Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/100G_OPTX/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.3 100 Gb/s per lane optical PHYs Study Group. The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE P802.3cu Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Operation over Single-Mode 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 request: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/19/ec-19-0006-00-00EC-ieee-p802-3cu-draft-par.pdf>
Draft CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/19/ec-19-0005-00-00EC-ieee-p802-3cu-draft-csd.pdf>
Draft objectives: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/100G_OPTX/Objectives_Approved_by_SG_Jan_2019.pdf>

Since the submission deadline for the March NesCom meeting occurs prior to the date of the March IEEE 802 EC meeting, I have pre-submitted the draft PAR to NesCom on the understanding that any changes to the draft PAR text resulting from the Plenary review process will be promptly communicated to the NesCom Administrator and should the IEEE 802.3 Working Group or the IEEE 802 LMSC Executive Committee not approve the submission, it will be removed from the NesCom agenda.

Questions about the Study Group can be addressed to the Study Group Chair, Mr Mark Nowell.


Automotive Ethernet beyond 10 Gb/s Electrical PHYs call for interest
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CFI page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/cfi/request_0319_1.html>

The following request for agenda time for an Automotive Ethernet: Beyond 10 Gb/s Electrical PHYs call for interest has been received from Steve Carlson.

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Ethernet data rates in automobiles are being driven by the push to fully-autonomous operation. 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 are already in vehicles, and 2.5 Gb/s, 5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s links (IEEE P802.3ch) are being designed in for model year 2023. With the move from domain-based architecture to zonal-based architecture, 10G+ links (typically redundant) between the electronic control units (ECU) will be required. Latest generation sensors (cameras, lidar, etc.) may transmit uncompressed data at rates greater than 10 Gb/s. "Black-box" data recorders also require 10G+ to handle the greater than 4 TB of data produced per day in autonomous cars. Test vehicles are under development using standard 25 Gb/s and 50Gb/s Ethernet, and will require an automotive Ethernet version for production. In order to meet the design cycles of the auto industry, the time to start this effort is now.

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The call for interest will take place during the IEEE 802.3 Opening Plenary on the morning of Monday 11th March. A call for interest consensus building meeting has been scheduled to occur from 18:30 to 19:30 on the evening of Tuesday 12th March. 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 14th 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.

Amendment PARs
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IEEE P802.11be Enhancements for Extremely High Throughput (EHT)
Draft PAR: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/18/11-18-1231-04-0eht-eht-draft-proposed-par.docx>
Draft CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/18/11-18-1233-04-0eht-eht-draft-proposed-csd.docx>

Industry Connections Activity Initiation Document (ICAID)
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IEEE 802.1: Network Enhancements for the Next Decade
Renewal ICAID: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/dcn/18/1-18-0079-02-ICne.docx>
Annual report: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/dcn/18/1-18-0078-02-ICne.ppt>


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


Tutorials
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At present, there is one tutorial session planned for this plenary as follows.

Tutorial #1 (6:00-7:20 pm): Spectrum ... Be Prepared for Sharing

* Various spectrum bands being considered by the FCC for commercial use - e. g. 3.4 GHz to 4.2 GHz, 6 GHz, Ku/Ka, Spectrum Frontiers, Spectrum Horizons etc. Majority of these bands will require sharing with federal users
* Provide insights on spectrum sharing and why it is important.
* Spectrum Sharing today - TV White Spaces, 3.5 GHz CBRS.
* Spectrum Sharing tomorrow. Federal and Commercial Dynamic and Cognitive Sharing
* Technologies needed to make spectrum sharing a reality
* Why IEEE 802 community needs to be involved
* Launch of a Technical Interest Group within IEEE 802 to look into standardizing various technologies

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