This email serves to announce the next IEEE P802.3dj  joint  logic and optics track ad hoc meetings.  
  
Meeting dates, times and deadlines:                          
 
| Meeting | Agenda request deadline (5pm PT) | Contribution submission deadline (5pm PT) | 
| Thurs Oct 19th,  7am to 10am PT 
 | Fri Oct 13th
 | Tues Oct 17th
 | 
| Thurs Nov 2nd, 7am to 10am PT | Fri Oct 27th | Tues Oct 31st | 
 
 
The call details will be available on the TF website at https://www.ieee802.org/3/dj/public/adhoc/optics/index.html and
 can be found on the IEEE call and meeting calendar at https://www.ieee802.org/3/calendar.html
 
Coming out of the September interim meeting, we identified a number of areas where more information is needed or more consensus is needed.  The purpose of these ad hoc meetings is allow discussion and
 contributions on any of these topics.  We are holding it joint between the optics and logic teams as a number of these topics relate across both areas.
 
The goal will be to enable contributors to better refine proposals or provide information relevant to future decisions ahead of the November Plenary meeting.  With this being an ad hoc meeting, no decisions
 can be made but informative straw polls are possible.
 
At this point, we anticipate topics to potentially include:
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FEC Modes discussion
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Optical baseline updates incl test validation data
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Coherent ER1 baseline proposal(s)
But this is not a complete list of potential topics.
 
 
If anyone, does wish to make a short presentation in line with above please make a request by the dates noted above. Please email myself,
Gary  (and John D'Ambrosia, please) the following information:
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Name of presenter
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Affiliation of presenter
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Title of presentation
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Length of time requested (this should include time for questions and answers – presentation time, excluding Q&A, will be at the discretion of the chair, and should be assumed to be
 limited to 30 min)
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Brief description of topic
 
The presenter shall e-mail a PDF, soft-copy version of the presentation to myself, Gary (and John D'Ambrosia, please) in
 advance of the meeting per above dates.
 
All individuals submitting presentations should review the Procedures for Presenters Page: http://www.ieee802.org/3/df/public/presentproc.html
 
Please adhere to the Presentation Style Guidelines.  Also, to support the web site search tool used by the IEEE P802.3 web site the 'Document Information' fields of the PDF file must be completed as
 follows:
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Title: Title of presentation
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Author: Name(s) of author(s)
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Subject: IEEE P802.3dj Task Force
 
I want to remind all teleconference meeting participants to review the following documents prior to participation in an IEEE 802.3 meeting teleconference: 
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IEEE SA patent policy
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IEEE SA Copyright Policy
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IEEE SA Participation Policy
 
All of these policies may be found at http://ieee802.org/3/policies.html
  
Thanks, 
 
Mark Nowell 
IEEE P802.3dj optics track leader
And  
Gary Nicholl
IEEE P802.3dj architecture and logic track leader