Dear Colleagues,
As already announced <
https://www.ieee802.org/3/email_dialog/msg01516.html>, IEEE 802.3 will hold its March 2024 plenary session from Monday 11 March
2024 through Thursday 14 March 2024. The plenary session will be held at The plenary session will be held at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, USA with support for mixed-mode attendance (i.e., remote attendance). Please
note that the meetings are being planned around an in-person schedule, with remote access provided on a best-effort basis.
The IEEE 802.3 Working Group opening plenary meeting will begin at 10h00 MDT (16h00 UTC) on Monday 11 March 2024, and the IEEE 802.3 Working Group closing plenary meeting will begin at 13h00 MDT (19h00 UTC) on Thursday 15 March 2024. I will provide the
IEEE 802.3 Working Group opening and closing plenary meeting call information and calendar invitations shortly. The draft agendas, as well as liaison letters received so far, are available in the minutes area <
https://ieee802.org/3/minutes/mar24/index.html>
and will be updated as required prior to the meeting. The agenda will be approved at the meeting.
IEEE 802.3 Subgroup (Task Force, Study Group, and Ad Hoc) meetings will be scheduled between the IEEE 802.3 Working Group opening and closing plenary meetings. Please always check <
https://ieee802.org/3/calendar.html>
for the most up-to-date information. Payment of a registration fee is
REQUIRED BY ANYONE THAT ATTENDS ANY MEETING , IN-PERSON OR REMOTE, held during this plenary session. The registration website can be accessed directly at <
https://cvent.me/PE85XZ>.
We will gather two records of attendance: [1] the attendance tracking tool (IMAT); and [2] attendance books in each face-to-face meeting along with the teleconference tool attendance. The IMAT attendance tool will be the only official record of attendance
for building and maintaining WG membership. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO LOG YOUR ATTENDANCE IN THE IMAT ATTENDANCE TRACKING TOOL. There is no requirement for the IEEE 802.3 Recording Secretary or any other IEEE 802.3 officer to add your attendance
to the IMAT attendance tracking tool if you forget to register it during a meeting. The meeting attendance books along with the teleconference tool attendance will be used to record the attendance in the minutes for each meeting and you must review these minutes
to make sure your attendance is recorded correctly.
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). Several WG decisions are expected during the IEEE 802.3 meetings (most during the Thursday Closing plenary meetings). Depending
on the amount of discussion, IEEE 802.3 WG meetings may run beyond their target ending times, so please plan your time accordingly. Additional subgroup information follows.
David Law
Chair, IEEE 802.3 Working Group
+44 1631 563729
IEEE 802.3 Business
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In addition to regular Working Group business, there will be Task Force, Study Group and Ad Hoc business based on the status below. As this is the first plenary session of an even numbered year, Chair and Vice-Chair elections will take place during the
IEEE 802.3 Closing Plenary meeting on Thursday 14 March 2024 <
https://www.ieee802.org/3/minutes/nov23/1123_802_3_closing_plenary.pdf#page=40>.
Maintenance Task Force
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The Task Force will be considering new maintenance requests, reviewing the status of outstanding maintenance requests as well as considering any other maintenance business.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Adam Healey.
IEEE P802.3cw 400 Gb/s over DWDM systems Task Force
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The Initial Standards Association ballot of IEEE P802.3cw draft D3.0 closed on 18 January 2024. However, due to lack of volunteers willing to contribute to developing proposed responses to the submitted comments there has been no progress towards considering
the comment received. Based on this the IEEE P802.3cw Chair has proposed withdrawing the IEEE P802.3cw PAR and this proposal has received no objections on the IEEE P802.3cw reflector. The IEEE P802.3cw Task Force therefore plans to progress an IEEE P802.3cw
PAR withdrawal request during the plenary session.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr John D'Ambrosia.
IEEE P802.3da 10 Mb/s Single Pair Multidrop Segments Enhancement Task Force
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The initial Task Force review of IEEE P802.3da draft D1.0 closed on 14 January 2024, and the IEEE P802.3da Task Force has already met to start considering the comments received. The IEEE P802.3da Task Force therefore plans to continue considering the comments
received during the initial Task Force review of IEEE P802.3da draft D1.0 during the plenary session.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Chad Jones.
IEEE P802.3dg 100 Mb/s Long-Reach Single Pair Ethernet Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3dg Task Force is working on the 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 George Zimmerman.
IEEE P802.3dj 200 Gb/s, 400 Gb/s, 800 Gb/s, and 1.6 Tb/s Ethernet Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3dj Task Force is working on the 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 P802.3dk Greater than 50 Gb/s Bidirectional Optical Access PHYs Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3dj Task Force is working on the 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 Yuanqiu Luo.
IEEE P802.3.1 (IEEE 802.3.1b) SMIv2 Data Models (Revision)
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The first Working Group recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3.1 (IEEE 802.3.1b) draft D1.1 closes on 27 February 2024. The IEEE P802.3.1 (IEEE 802.3.1b) Task Force therefore plans to be considering the comments received during the first Working Group recirculation
ballot of IEEE P802.3.1 (IEEE 802.3.1b) draft D1.1 during the plenary session.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Marek Hajduczenia.
IEEE P802.3.2 (IEEE 802.3.2a) YANG Data Model (Revision)
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The Initial Working Group ballot of IEEE P802.3.2 (IEEE 802.3.2a) draft D1.0 closed on 20 December 2023, with all comments received considered during January 2024 interim meeting series. Since IEEE P802.3.2 (IEEE 802.3.2a) draft D1.1 is in preparation
for First Working Group recirculation ballot, the IEEE P802.3.2 (IEEE 802.3.2a) Task Force does not plan to meet during the plenary session.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Marek Hajduczenia.
IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 1 (IEEE 802.3dn) Multi-Gigabit Automotive MDI return loss
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The IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 1 (IEEE 802.3dn) PAR was approved on 15 February 2024, with the initial IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 1 (IEEE 802.3dn) PAR Task Force meeting held on 21 February 2024. As a technically complete IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 1 (IEEE 802.3dn) draft
was approved at that meeting, the IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 1 (IEEE 802.3dn) Task Force plans to seek approval to proceed to Working Group ballot.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Brett Mcclellan.
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet for Automotive Imaging Sensors Study Group
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The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet for Automotive Imaging Sensors Study Group has completed development of the following IEEE P802.3dm Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet draft PAR, as well as supporting
draft CSD and draft objectives:
The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet for Automotive Imaging Sensors Study Group therefore plans to seek the necessary IEEE P802.3dm draft PAR, CSD and objectives approvals.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Study Group Chair, Mr Jon Lewis.
IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications (NEA) Industry Connections Ad Hoc
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The IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications (NEA) Industry Connections Ad Hoc is planning one meeting during the plenary session to discuss Ethernet architectural support for precision timestamping.
Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Jon Lewis.
IEEE 802.3 Power Distribution Coordinating Committee (PDCC) Ad Hoc
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The IEEE 802.3 PDCC Ad Hoc is planning to continue its review of ITU-T K.117 'Primary protector parameters for the surge protection of equipment Ethernet ports' and ITU-T K.147 'Protection of digital ports connected to balanced pairs of conductors' in
response to the ITU-T SG5 Q2/5 work items to revise these recommendations.
Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Chad Jones.
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 18h30 MDT on Tuesday 12 March (00h30 UTC Wednesday 13 March 2024) and, as already announced <
https://www.ieee802.org/3/email_dialog/msg01513.html>,
the PAR Review Ad Hoc will be meeting at 08h00 PST (16h00 UTC) on Monday 26 February 2024 to consider these PARs, and submit comments if necessary.
Amendment project PARs
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IEEE P802.1ASeb Timing and Synchronization for Time-Sensitive Applications Amendment: Optional Use of Announce
IEEE P802.11bp Wireless LAN Amendment: Enhancements for Ambient Power Communication (AMP)
PAR modification request
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IEEE P802.11bf Wireless LAN Amendment: Enhancements for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Sensing
IEEE 802.3 Rules
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At present, there are no new proposed rules changes.
IEEE 802 Tutorials
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Tutorial 1
Subject: Ascon: The Lightweight Cryptography Standard for IoT
Date: Monday 11 March 2024
Time: 18h15 to 19h35 MDT (00h15 to 01h35 UTC Tuesday 12 March 2024)
Abstract:
Implementing strong encryption is often not affordable for small and resource-constrained devices. To address this gap, NIST has recently selected Ascon as the new standard for lightweight authenticated encryption and hashing. In a multi-year international
competition Ascon was selected as the winner among 56 candidates. Similar competitions led to the selection of the NIST standards AES and SHA-3. Ascon can provide the same security and combined functionality as AES-128 and SHA3-256 at a much lower cost.
Wireless security is becoming increasingly important, and the weakest link is often the most vulnerable. Ascon will lower the bar for devices with little energy and computing power to implement security. In this tutorial, we will consider Ascon for next
generation wireless standards, specifically 802.11 and 802.15, which are heavily used to serve many IoT applications. We will give an overview of Ascon, provide benchmarking results, and show how Ascon can be easily integrated into these wireless standards.
Tutorial 2
Subject: Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC)
Date: Monday 11 March 2024
Time: 19h45 to 21h05 MDT (01h15 to 03h05 UTC Tuesday 12 March 2024)
Abstract:
Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) systems are the next evolution of centralized dynamic spectrum management systems. This tutorial will provide basic background on centralized dynamic spectrum management systems focusing on the AFC including regulatory
drivers, requirements, standards and specifications, business considerations and future implications.