Dear Colleagues,
IEEE 802.3 will hold its November 2025 plenary session from Monday, 10 November 2025, through Thursday, 13 November 2025. The plenary session will be held at the Marriott Marquis Queen's Park, Bangkok, Thailand, 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 10h15 IDT (UTC +7) on Monday, 10 November 2025, and the IEEE 802.3 Working Group closing plenary meeting will begin at 13h15 IDT on Thursday, 13 November 2025. I will provide the IEEE 802.3
Working Group opening and closing plenary meeting call information and calendar invitations shortly. IEEE 802.3 Subgroup 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.
The draft agendas, as well as liaison letters, received so far, are available in the meeting minutes area <
https://www.ieee802.org/3/minutes/nov25/index.html>
and will be updated as required before the meeting. The agenda will be approved at the meeting. Several Working Group 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.
Subclause 4.1 'Attendance at Meetings' of the IEEE 802 LMSC Working Group Policies and Procedures says that 'A participant shall attend at least 75% of a meeting slot's duration ...' and satisfy any registration requirements to gain 'Credited Attendance'
at that meeting slot. It then goes on to say that 'A participant that has Credited Attendance in at least 75% of the meeting slots in a Session has Session Attendance Credit for that Session.'. A participant requires Session Attendance Credit at two of the
last four plenary sessions, with the ability to substitute one credited interim session for one plenary session, to gain or retain IEEE 802.3 voting membership.
As has always been our practice, there will only be an opportunity to gain Credited Attendance on Monday during the IEEE 802.3 Working Group opening plenary, one slot, and on Thursday at the IEEE 802.3 Working Group closing plenary meeting, two slots.
This, combined with four slots on Tuesday and Wednesday, will result in a total of eleven meeting slots where there is an opportunity to gain Credited Attendance during the plenary session. A participant must, therefore, gain Credited Attendance at a minimum
of nine meeting slots (at least 75% of eleven) to obtain Session Attendance Credit towards gaining or retaining IEEE 802.3 voting membership.
At a high level, this will require attendance at a minimum of any three days out of the four-day Plenary Session, but the requirement to gain Credited Attendance at a minimum of 75% of the meeting slots of the Plenary Session can be achieved in any way
a participant chose. This, for example, could be achieved by attending the IEEE 802.3 Working Group opening plenary slot on Monday morning, all four meeting slots on Tuesday, two meeting slots on Wednesday, and then the two IEEE 802.3 Working Group closing
plenary slots on Thursday afternoon.
Any request to retrospectively add attendance in IMAT shall be made to the IEEE 802.3 Recording Secretary within four hours of the end of the respective IMAT meeting slot and accompanied by confirmation of attendance from the respective meeting Chair or
other officer. If you attend a meeting but do not sign in to an IMAT meeting slot for some reason (e.g., you do not attend at least 75% of a meeting slot's duration), it is your responsibility to ensure your attendance is recorded in the respective meeting
minutes by sending an email to the respective meeting chair.
I look forward to seeing you in Bangkok, Thailand.
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.
IEEE 802.3 Maintenance Task Force
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The Task Force will consider new maintenance requests, review the status of outstanding maintenance requests, and address any other maintenance-related business.
In addition, the IEEE 802.3 Maintenance Task Force has developed the draft IEEE P802.3 (IEEE 802.3du) Standard for Ethernet (Revision) PAR. The draft PAR is pending approval by the IEEE 802.3 Working Group at this meeting before seeking approval from the
IEEE 802 LMSC. The draft PAR can be accessed as follows:
Since the submission deadline for the December 2025 IEEE SA NesCom meeting occurs before the date of the November IEEE 802 LMSC 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 not approve the submission, it will be removed from the NesCom agenda.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Adam Healey.
IEEE P802.3da 10 Mb/s Single Pair Multidrop Segments Enhancement Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3da Task Force expects to consider comments received during a third Standards Association recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3da draft D3.3, which it plans will close before the plenary session. Since the IEEE P802.3da draft is nearing completion
of the Standards Association ballot process, the IEEE P802.3da Task Force expects to seek conditional approval to submit the IEEE P802.3da draft to RevCom.
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 will consider comments received during the first Working Group recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3dg draft D2.1, which will close before the plenary session. Since the IEEE P802.3dg draft is nearing completion of the Working
Group ballot process, the IEEE P802.3da Task Force expects to seek conditional approval to submit the IEEE P802.3da draft to Standards Association balloting.
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 will consider comments received during the second Working Group recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3dj draft D2.2, which will close before the plenary session. Since the IEEE P802.3dj draft is nearing completion of the Working
Group ballot process, the IEEE P802.3da Task Force expects to seek conditional approval to submit the IEEE P802.3dj draft to Standards Association balloting.
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 P802.3dk Task Force expects to consider comments received during a first Standards Association recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3dk draft D3.1, which it plans will close before the plenary session. Since the IEEE P802.3dk draft is nearing completion
of the Standards Association ballot process, the IEEE P802.3dk Task Force expects to seek conditional approval to submit the IEEE P802.3dk draft to RevCom.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Ms Yuanqiu Luo.
IEEE P802.3dm Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3dm 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 Natalie Wienckowski.
IEEE P802.3dp Cabling Restrictions for Single Pair Power over Ethernet Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3dp 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.
The IEEE P802.3dp Task Force is not planning to meet during the plenary session.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Chad Jones.
IEEE P802.3dq Pin-Optimized PHY Interface Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3dq 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. The IEEE P802.3dq Task Force is not planning to meet during
the plenary session.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Jason Potterf.
IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 2 (IEEE 802.3dr) Optical Automotive Ethernet TDFOM Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 2 (IEEE 802.3dr) Task Force has submitted a draft for Working Group preview in preparation for a request to proceed to Working Group ballot at the plenary.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Luisma Torres.
IEEE 802.3 200 Gb/s per Wavelength MMF PHYs Study Group
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The Study Group has developed the draft IEEE P802.3ds IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 200 Gb/s and greater Operation over Multimode Fiber using 200 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 before seeking approval of both the PAR and CSD by the IEEE 802 LMSC. The draft PAR, CSD and objectives can be accessed as follows:
Since the submission deadline for the December 2025 meeting occurs before the date of the November 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 not approve the submission, it will be removed from the NesCom agenda.
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Metadata Services Study Group
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The Study Group has developed the draft IEEE P802.3dt IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Ethernet Metadata Services 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 before seeking approval of both the PAR and CSD by the IEEE 802 LMSC. The draft PAR, CSD and objectives can be accessed as follows:
Since the submission deadline for the December 2025 meeting occurs before the date of the November 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 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 David Ofelt.
IEEE 802.3 Power Distribution Coordinating Committee (PDCC) Ad Hoc
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IEEE 802.3 Power Distribution Coordinating Committee Ad Hoc is chartered to review output and build consensus on input for liaisons regarding power delivery over cabling cited in IEEE 802.3 standards and projects.
IEEE 802.3 Power Distribution Coordinating Committee Ad Hoc is not planning to meet during the plenary session.
Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Chad Jones.
IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications (NEA) Industry Connections Ad Hoc
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The IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications Industry Connections Ad Hoc is chartered to support the work under the New Ethernet Applications Industry Connections Activity Initiation Document (ICAID).
The IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications Industry Connections Ad Hoc is not planning to meet during the plenary session.
Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Jon Lewis.
IEEE 802.3 COM Open Source Ad Hoc
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The IEEE 802.3 COM Open Source Ad Hoc is chartered to support the work under the IEEE 802.3 Channel Operating Margin (COM) Tier 3 open source project.
The IEEE 802.3 COM Open Source Ad Hoc is not planning to meet during the plenary session.
Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Howard Heck.
IEEE 802.3 YANG Open Source Ad Hoc
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The IEEE 802.3 YANG Open Source Ad Hoc is chartered to consider potential paths for moving IEEE 802.3 YANG into an IEEE OSCOM Open Source project.
Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Peter Jones.
IEEE 802.3 Rules
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A vote regarding accepting proposed revision 1-07/25 'Alignment to supervisory rules', received before the start of the July 2025 plenary session, will take place at the IEEE 802.3 Closing Plenary on the afternoon of Thursday, 13 November 2025.
No additional rules change requests have been received at this time.
Project Authorization Requests (PARs) and Industry Connections Work Item proposals
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The following are the PARs from other working groups that have been announced for consideration at the plenary so far. Comments are due by 18h30 ICT on Tuesday, 11 November 2025. An IEEE 802.3 PAR Review Ad Hoc will be held at from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC on
27 October 2025.
Amendment PARs
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IEEE P802.1AEef Ascon Cipher Suite
IEEE P802.1AReg Support for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm
PAR modification requests
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IEEE P802.1CBec Sequence Recovery Function Refinements and Configuration
IEEE P802.11bi Enhanced Service with Privacy Protection
IEEE 802 Tutorials
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No tutorials will take place during the November 2025 plenary session.