[802.3_DIALOG] March 2020 plenary meeting announcement

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

Dear Colleagues,

IEEE 802.3 will meet Monday 16th March through Thursday 19th March 2020 in Atlanta, GA, USA. The IEEE 802.3 meetings are scheduled to occur in the Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA. As always, the IEEE 802 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 10h00 on Monday 16th March, and the IEEE 802.3 WG closing plenary meeting will begin at 13h00 on Thursday 19th 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/mar20/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 discussions, the Thursday closing meeting may run beyond our target 18h00 ending time, so please plan your travel accordingly. Additional subgroup information follows.

Please note that the IEEE 802.3ck 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Electrical Interfaces Task Force will be holding a co-located interim meeting on Monday 16th March 2020 from 08h00 to 10h00 immediately prior to the plenary meeting week.

I look forward to seeing you in Atlanta, GA, 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.


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

The Task Force will be considering new maintenance requests, reviewing the status of outstanding maintenance requests.


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 twenty-sixth meeting of the IEEE P802.3ca 25 Gb/s and 50 Gb/s Passive Optical Networks Task Force. The 25 Gb/s and 50 Gb/s Passive Optical Networks Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 2nd Standards Association recirculation ballot of 25 Gb/s and 50 Gb/s Passive Optical Networks draft D3.2 that is expected to close prior to the meeting. With the project near to completing Standards Association balloting it is expected that the Task Force will request conditional, or unconditional, approval to proceed to RevCom submittal.

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


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>

IEEE Std 802.3cg-2019 IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 5: Physical Layers Specifications and Management Parameters for 10 Mb/s Operation and Associated Power Delivery over a Single Balanced Pair of Conductors was published on 5th February 2020. As a result the work of the IEEE P802.3cg Task Force is now complete.

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 twentieth meeting of the IEEE P802.3ch Multi-Gig Automotive Ethernet PHY Task Force. The Multi-Gig Automotive Ethernet PHY Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 2nd Standards Association recirculation ballot of Multi-Gig Automotive Ethernet PHY draft D2.3 that is due to close prior to the meeting. With the project near to completing Standards Association balloting it is expected that the Task Force will request conditional, or unconditional, approval to proceed to RevCom submittal.

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 twelfth 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 is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 2nd Task Force review of IEEE P802.3ck draft D1.1 that is due to close prior to the meeting.

Please note that the IEEE 802.3ck 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Electrical Interfaces Task Force will be holding a co-located interim meeting on Monday 16th March 2020 from 08h00 to 10h00 immediately prior to the plenary meeting week.

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>

IEEE Std 802.3cm-2020 IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 7: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 400 Gb/s over Multimode Fiber was approved as an IEEE standard on 30th January 2020 and is currently awaiting publication. As a result the IEEE P802.3cm Task Force will not be meeting during the plenary meeting week.

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>

IEEE Std 802.3cn-2019 Amendment 4: Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 50 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Operation over Single-Mode Fiber was published on 20th December 2019. As a result the work of the IEEE P802.3cn Task Force is now complete.

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 eighth 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 will be in comment resolution on comments received on the 4th Task Force review of IEEE P802.3cp draft D1.2 that will close prior to the meeting.

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>

IEEE Std 802.3cq-2020 IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 6: Maintenance #13: Power over Ethernet over 2 pairs was approved as an IEEE standard on 30th January 2020 and is currently awaiting publication. As a result the IEEE P802.3cq Task Force will not be meeting during the plenary meeting week.

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 ninth meeting of the IEEE P802.3cr Isolation (Maintenance #14) Task Force.  The Isolation (Maintenance #14) Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 1st Working Group recirculation ballot of Isolation (Maintenance #14) draft D2.1 that is planned to close prior to the meeting.

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 sixth 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, as well as draft development, progressing towards a technically complete draft for working group ballot. The IEEE P802.3cs Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 5th Task Force review of IEEE P802.3cs draft D0.5 that will close prior to the meeting.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Claudio DeSanti.


IEEE P802.3ct 100Gb/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 seventh meeting of the IEEE P802.3ct 100Gb/s over DWDM systems Task Force. The IEEE P802.3ct Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the 3rd Task Force review of IEEE P802.3ct draft D1.2 that will close prior to the meeting.

The IEEE P802.3ct PAR modification request is currently in the approval process which is expected to complete prior to the meeting. Assuming approval the 400 Gb/s portion of the IEEE P802.3ct project will be removed from the IEEE P802.3ct project and placed in the new IEEE P802.3cw amendment project.

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


IEEE P802.3cu 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s over SMF at 100 Gb/s per Wavelength Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cu/index.html>

This will be the sixth meeting of the IEEE P802.3cu 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s over SMF at 100 Gb/s per Wavelength Task Force.  The 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s over SMF at 100 Gb/s per Wavelength Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the Initial Working Group ballot of 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s over SMF at 100 Gb/s per Wavelength draft D2.0 that will close prior to the meeting.

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


IEEE P802.3cv Maintenance #15: Power over Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cv/index.html>

This will be the fourth meeting of the IEEE P802.3cv Maintenance #15: Power over Ethernet Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cv Task Force will be in comment resolution on comments received on the 3rd Task Force review of IEEE P802.3cv draft D1.2 that will close prior to the meeting.

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


IEEE P802.3cw 400 Gb/s over DWDM Systems Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cw/index.html>

This will be the first meeting of the IEEE P802.3cw 400 Gb/s over DWDM Systems Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cw 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 P802.3cx Improved PTP timestamping accuracy Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cx/index.html>

This will be the first meeting of the IEEE P802.3cx Improved PTP timestamping accuracy Task Force. The IEEE P802.3cx 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 Steve Gorshe.


IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications (NEA) 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 New Ethernet Applications (NEA) Industry Connections Ad Hoc will not be meeting during the plenary week.

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


IEEE 802.3 Greater than 10 Gb/s Automotive Ethernet Electrical PHYs Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/B10GAUTO/index.html>

This will be the sixth meeting of the IEEE 802.3 Greater than 10 Gb/s Automotive Ethernet Electrical PHYs Study Group. The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE P802.3cy Standard for Ethernet: Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for greater than 10 Gb/s Automotive Electrical Ethernet 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/20/ec-20-0008-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3cy-draft-par-response.pdf>
Draft CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/20/ec-20-0009-00-00EC-ieee-p802-3cy-draft-csd-response.pdf>
Draft objectives: <http://ieee802.org/3/B10GAUTO/B10GAUTO_OBJ_DRAFT_03_1119.pdf>

Since the submission deadline for the April 2020 NesCom teleconference 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 Steve Carlson.


IEEE 802.3 Multi Gigabit Automotive Optical PHYs Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/OMEGA/index.html>

This will be the fourth meeting of the IEEE 802.3 Multi Gigabit Automotive Optical PHYs Study Group. The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE P802.3cz Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for Multi-Gigabit Optical Automotive Ethernet 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/20/ec-20-0010-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3cz-draft-par-response.pdf>
Draft CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/20/ec-20-0011-00-00EC-ieee-p802-3cz-draft-csd-response.pdf>
Draft objectives: <http://ieee802.org/3/OMEGA/public/jan_2020/objectives_OMEGA_01a_0120.pdf>

Since the submission deadline for the April 2020 NesCom teleconference 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 Bob Grow.


IEEE 802.3 10Mb/s Single Pair Ethernet Multidrop Enhancements Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/SPMD/index.html>

This will be the fourth meeting of the IEEE 802.3 10Mb/s Single Pair Ethernet Multidrop Enhancements Study Group. The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE P802.3da Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 10 Mb/s Operation over Single Balanced Pair Multidrop Enhancements 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/20/ec-20-0012-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3da-draft-par-response.pdf>
Draft CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/20/ec-20-0013-00-00EC-ieee-p802-3da-draft-csd-response.pdf>
Draft objectives: <http://ieee802.org/3/SPMD/spmd_objectives.pdf>

Since the submission deadline for the April 2020 NesCom teleconference 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 Chad Jones.


IEEE 802.3 100 Gb/s Wavelength Short Reach PHYs Study Group
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Study Group home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/100GSR/index.html>

This will be the second meeting of the IEEE 802.3 100 Gb/s Wavelength Short Reach PHYs Study Group. The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE P802.3db Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Operation over Optical Fiber using 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 request: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/20/ec-20-0014-01-00EC-ieee-p802-3db-draft-par-response.pdf>
Draft CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/20/ec-20-0015-00-00EC-ieee-p802-3db-draft-csd-response.pdf>
Draft objectives: <http://ieee802.org/3/100GSR/Objectives_Approved_by_100GSR_SG_Jan_2020.pdf>

Since the submission deadline for the April 2020 NesCom teleconference 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 Robert Lingle.


Project Authorization Requests (PARs) and Industry Connections Work Item proposals
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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 P802.1ASdm - Timing and Synchronization for Time-Sensitive Applications Amendment: Hot Standby
PAR: <http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2020/dm-draft-PAR-0120-v01.pdf>
CSD: <http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2020/dm-draft-CSD-0120-v01.pdf>

IEEE P802.15.7a - Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications High Data Rate Optical Camera Communications
PAR: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/19/15-19-0296-02-0vat-par-for-high-rate-occ-task-group.pdf>
CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/19/15-19-0297-02-0vat-csd-for-high-rate-occ-task-group.docx>

Revision PAR
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IEEE 802.1Q	- Bridges and Bridged Networks
PAR: <http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2020/Q-rev-draft-PAR-0220-v01.pdf>

PAR extension
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IEEE P802.1CQ - Multicast and Local Address Assignment
PAR Extension request: <http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2020/cq-draft-PAR-ext-0120-v01.pdf>
Unchanged original CSD:  <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/15/ec-15-0105-00-ACSD-802-1cq.pdf>

Industry Connections Work Item proposals
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IEEE 802 Nendica - Revision of "The Lossless Network for Data Centers"
Work Item Proposal: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/dcn/20/1-20-0002-02-ICne.pptx>

IEEE 802 Nendica - Network Stream and Flow Interworking
Work Item Proposal: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/dcn/20/1-20-0004-04-ICne.pdf>


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


Tutorials
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There will be one tutorial taking place from 19:00 to 20:20 on Monday 16th March 2020 as follows:

Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment

ABSTRACT: Throughout 2019 the IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections New Ethernet Applications Ad Hoc has been conducting an assessment of those factors influencing bandwidth requirements that could impact Ethernet wireline applications.  This tutorial session shall provide a summary overview of this activity.

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