[802.3_DIALOG] IEEE 802.3 March 2021 plenary update

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

Dear Colleagues,

As already announced <https://www.ieee802.org/3/email_dialog/msg01139.html>, IEEE 802.3 will hold its March 2021 plenary session telephonically, from Monday 8th March, through Thursday, 18th March 2021.

There will be an IEEE 802.3 Opening plenary meeting on Monday 8th March, an IEEE 802.3 Mid-session plenary meeting on Thursday 11th March 2021, and an IEEE 802.3 Closing plenary session on Thursday 18th March 2021. These meetings will be held from 14h00 UTC to 16h00 UTC, however the dates span when the clock change in some geographies, so please pay particular attention to the meeting times for you.

The draft agendas, as well as liaison letters received so far, are available in the minutes area <http://www.ieee802.org/3/minutes/mar21/index.html> and will be updated as required prior to the meeting. The agenda will be approved at the meeting.

Subgroup (Task Force, standing committee, and any appropriate ad hocs) meetings will be held from Tuesday 9th March 2021 UTC through Wednesday 17th March 2021 UTC, excluding Friday 12th March 2021 UTC through Sunday 14th March 2021 UTC. Meeting information is provided on the IEEE 802.3 Call and Meeting Calendar <https://ieee802.org/3/calendar.html>, further information regarding subgroup meetings are provided below.

As a reminder, attendance credit toward membership requires at least 75% attendance during the plenary session. As a result, you will need to record attendance at a meeting on at least six of the eight meeting days of the March 2021 IEEE 802.3 plenary session, independent of how long a subgroup might be meeting.
 
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.


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 as well as progressing the adoption of IEEE 802.3 standards by ISO/IEC SC6 as ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-3 standards. The Task Force will also be progressing the IEEE P802.3 (IEEE 802.3dc) Ethernet revision project.

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


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>

It is expected that IEEE P802.3ck draft D1.5 will be submitted for Working Group preview in preparation for a request to proceed to Working Group ballot. If that is the case, the IEEE P802.3ck Task Force will be preparing for that request at the March 2021 IEEE 802.3 Closing plenary meeting.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Ms Elizabeth Kochuparambil.


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>

The IEEE P802.3cp Bidirectional 10 Gb/s, 25 Gb/s, and 50 Gb/s Optical Access PHYs Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received on the initial Standards Association ballot of Bidirectional 10 Gb/s, 25 Gb/s, and 50 Gb/s Optical Access PHYs draft D3.0 that is due to close prior to the March 2021 plenary session.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Frank Effenberger.


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

With the approval of IEEE Std 802.3cr-2021 by the IEEE-SA Standards Board on 9th February 2021, the IEEE P802.3cr Task Force will not be meeting during the March 2021 IEEE 802.3 Plenary Session.

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>

It is expected that IEEE P802.3cs draft D1.5 will be submitted for Working Group preview in preparation for a request to proceed to Working Group ballot. If that is the case, the IEEE P802.3ck Task Force will be preparing for that request at the March 2021 IEEE 802.3 Closing plenary meeting.

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


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

The IEEE P802.3ct 100Gb/s over DWDM systems Task Force will be in comment resolution on comments received during the 1st Standards Association recirculation ballot of 100Gb/s over DWDM systems draft D3.1.

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>

With the approval of IEEE Std 802.3cu-2021 by the IEEE-SA Standards Board on 9th February 2021, the IEEE P802.3cr Task Force will not be meeting during the March 2021 IEEE 802.3 Plenary Session.

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


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

The IEEE P802.3cv Maintenance #15: Power over Ethernet Task Force is expected to be in comment resolution on comments received during the 1st Standards Association recirculation ballot of Maintenance #15: Power over Ethernet draft D3.1 due to close prior to the March 2021 IEEE 802.3 plenary session.

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>

The IEEE P802.3cw 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 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>

The IEEE P802.3cx 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 Gorshe.


IEEE P802.3cy Greater than 10 Gb/s Electrical Automotive Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cy/index.html>

The IEEE P802.3cy 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 P802.3cz Multi-Gigabit Optical Automotive Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/cz/index.html>

The IEEE P802.3cz 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 Bob grow.
 

IEEE P802.3da 10 Mb/s Single Pair Multidrop Segments Enhancement Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/da/index.html>

The IEEE P802.3da 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 Chad Jones.


IEEE P802.3db 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Short Reach Fiber Task Force
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Task Force home page: <http://ieee802.org/3/db/index.html>

The IEEE P802.3db 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 Robert Lingle.


IEEE 802.3 Beyond 400 Gb/s Ethernet Study Group
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The study group continues to work on developing a Project Authorization Request (PAR), Criteria for Standards Development (CSD) responses and objectives for (1) Beyond 400 Gb/s Ethernet and (2) Physical Layer specifications for existing Ethernet rates based on Physical Layer specifications for beyond 400 Gb/s Ethernet. 


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 is not planning to meet during the March 2021 IEEE 802.3 plenary session.

Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Jon Lewis.


Enhancements to Single Pair Ethernet call for interest 
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CFI page: <https://ieee802.org/3/cfi/request_0321_1.html>

The following request for agenda time for an Enhancements to Single Pair Ethernet call for interest has been received from George Zimmerman.

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With the conclusion of IEEE Std 802.3cg-2019, the Ethernet Standard has renewed interest in Ethernet at lower speeds. Renewed interest has broadened the application areas. This has already spawned a project for enhancements to the 10 Mbps shared-media (aka multidrop) operation on mixing segments in IEEE P802.3da; however, the point-to-point PHYs are outside the written scope of the IEEE P802.3da PAR. This call for interest is to consider enhancements related to the use of the point-to-point operation in single pair ethernet, including for example, use of 10BASE-T1L with MACMERGE. The proposed study group would explore any needed enhancements to use the new PHYs in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and industrial networking environments.

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The call for interest will take place during the IEEE 802.3 Opening Plenary teleconference meeting on Monday 9th November with a call for interest planned for 15h00 to 17h00 UTC on Tuesday 9th March 2021.


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. Under the modified PAR approval process for March 2021 comments on PARs from other WGs are due no later than Wednesday 10th March 2021 AoE so an Ad Hoc has been chartered and will meet Tuesday 2nd March 2021 17h00 UTC 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 2nd March 2021 ad hoc meeting.

Amendment PARs
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IEEE P802.1Qdq Shaper Parameter for Bursty Traffic requiring Bounded Latency
PAR: https://ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2021/dq-draft-PAR-0121-v01.pdf
CSD: https://ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2021/dq-draft-CSD-0121-v01.pdf

IEEE P802.1ASdr Timing and Synchronization: Inclusive Terminology
PAR: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2021/dr-PAR-0221-v01.pdf
CSD: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2021/dr-CSD-0221-v01.pdf

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

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