Dear Colleagues,
IEEE 802.3 will hold its July 2026 plenary session from Monday, 13 July 2026, through Thursday, 16 July 2026. The plenary session will be held at the Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, QC, Canada, 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 EDT (UTC -4) on Monday, 13 July 2026, and the IEEE 802.3 Working Group closing plenary meeting will start at 13h15 EDT on Thursday, 16 July 2026. 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/jul26/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 chooses. 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 Montreal, QC, Canada.
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 subgroup business based on the status below, as well as a Call for Interest.
IEEE 802.3 Maintenance Task Force
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The IEEE 802.3 Maintenance Task Force will not be meeting during the plenary session due to overlapping time commitments of potential attendees. Instead, the IEEE 802.3 Maintenance Task Force plans to meet shortly before the plenary session to maximise
attendance.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Adam Healey.
IEEE P802.3dg 100 Mb/s Long-Reach Single Pair Ethernet Task Force
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IEEE Std 802.3dg-2026 Standard for Ethernet Amendment 12: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 100 Mb/s Operation and Associated Power Delivery over a Single Balanced Pair of Conductors was approved as an IEEE Standard on Thursday
4 June 2026. The work of the IEEE P802.3dg Task Force is therefore complete.
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 be considering comments received during the first Standards Association recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3dj draft D3.1, which is closing on 21 June 2026. The IEEE P802.3dj Task Force also plans to seek approval to submit
a PAR extension request to NesCom as a precautionary measure to address unforeseen issues or events that could disrupt the project's progress, potentially extending it beyond the current PAR expiration date.
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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IEEE Std 802.3dk-2026 Standard for Ethernet Amendment 11: Bidirectional 100 Gb/s Optical Access PHYs was approved as an IEEE Standard on Thursday, 26 March 2026. The work of the IEEE P802.3dk Task Force is therefore complete.
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 expects to consider comments received during the initial Working Group ballot of IEEE P802.3dm draft D2.0, which is planned to close before the plenary session.
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.
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 completed the initial Standards Association ballot of IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 2 (IEEE 802.3dr) draft D3.0. The IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 2 (IEEE 802.3dr) Task Force will not be meeting during the plenary
session due to overlapping time commitments of potential attendees. Instead, to maximise attendance, the IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 2 (IEEE 802.3dr) Task Force plans to meet shortly before the plenary session to address the comments received during the initial Standards
Association ballot.
Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Luisma Torres.
IEEE P802.3ds 200 Gb/s per Wavelength MMF PHYs Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3ds 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 Mabud Choudhury.
IEEE P802.3dt Ethernet Metadata Services Task Force
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The IEEE P802.3dt 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 David Ofelt.
IEEE 802.3 400 Gb/s/lane Study Group
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The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE P802.3dv IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 400 Gb/s, 800 Gb/s, and 1.6 Tb/s Electrical and Single-Mode Fiber (SMF) Optical Interfaces Based on 400
Gb/s/lane 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:
The Study Group also plans to request rechartering.
Questions about the Study Group can be addressed to the Study Group Chair, Mr Kent Lusted.
IEEE 802.3 Fault Managed Power (FMP) Ethernet Interoperability Study Group
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The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE P802.3dw IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Ethernet and Fault Managed Power (FMP) 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 and CSD can be accessed as follows:
The Study Group also plans to request rechartering.
Questions about the Study Group can be addressed to the Study Group Chair, Mr Bob Voss.
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 (NEA) Industry Connections Ad Hoc is not planning to meet during the plenary session. The IEEE 802.3 NEA, however, will be presenting an annual report to IEEE SA Industry Connections Committee (ICCOM) for approval
at the IEEE 802.3 Closing plenary meeting.
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 support the work of the IEEE 802.3 YANG Tier 3 open source project and plans to hold a meeting during the plenary session to continue moving IEEE 802.3 YANG modules into Open Source.
Questions about the Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Peter Jones.
PLCA Multidrop Latency, Jitter, and Scalability Enhancements call for interest
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The following request for agenda time for a PLCA Multidrop Latency, Jitter, and Scalability Enhancements call for interest has been received from Yong Kim.
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10BASE-T1-S multidrop is being widely adopted in automotive Ethernet applications across e.g., body, chassis, and powertrain control applications, whose functions span a broad range of latency and jitter requirements, from tightly bounded control loops
to more timing-tolerant comfort and convenience functions.
The Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA) layer developed as a part of 802.3cg and refined in 802.3da provides a fair and equal access to stations on the mixing segment while providing bounded maximum access latency. The maximum access latency is not
sufficiently bounded for many of the tightly bounded control loops. Likewise, the variable length of the PLCA cycle results in high jitter (lack of determinism) that such applications cannot tolerate. PLCA as defined today cannot treat traffic differently based
on latency and jitter requirements. Additionally, adding traffic to multidrop networks engineered to meet latency and jitter requirements can change the latency and jitter of existing traffic in ways that are difficult to predict resulting in scalability issues
and the need to frequently reengineer networks.
Proprietary schemes are emerging in the market to address these needs.
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The call for interest will take place during the IEEE 802.3 Opening Plenary on the morning of Monday 13 July 2026. A call for interest consensus-building meeting has been scheduled from 19:00 to 21:00 on the evening of Tuesday, 14 July 2026. The vote to
determine if a Study Group will be formed will take place at the IEEE 802.3 Closing Plenary on the afternoon of Thursday, 16 July 2026.
IEEE 802.3 Rules
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A vote regarding proposed rules revision 1-03/26 'Call for Interest' <
https://www.ieee802.org/3/rules/updates/prop_change_1_0326.pdf> will
take place at the IEEE 802.3 Closing Plenary on the afternoon of Thursday, 16 July 2026. A rules meeting to discuss this proposed revision will take place from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC on Thursday, 2 July 2026.
No additional rules change requests have been received at this time.
Questions about the IEEE 802.3 Rules can be addressed to the IEEE 802.3 Vice Chair, Mr Adam Healey.
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 PDT on Tuesday, 14 July 2026. An IEEE 802.3 PAR Review Ad Hoc will be held from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC on Monday,
29 June 2026.
IEEE P802.1EH - Standard - Telemetry Tagging of Data Frames
IEEE P802.1EJ - Standard - Backward Notification
IEEE P802.1DGei - Amendment - Time Synchronization
IEEE P802.19.3a - Modification - IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 Coexistence
The IEEE 802 Network Enhancements for the Next Decade Industry Connections Activity (Nendica), operating in the IEEE 802.1 Working Group, develops its output in a series of Work Items. Nendica has developed procedures for initiating Work Items. Those procedures
call for proposals to be circulated for comment to the IEEE 802 LMSC according to the PAR process.
IEEE 802 Nendica Work Item Proposal: Backward Notification for Traffic Management in AI Data Center Networks
Questions about the IEEE 802.3 PAR Review Ad Hoc can be addressed to the Ad Hoc Chair, Mr Kent Lusted.
IEEE 802 Tutorials
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Tutorial #1 (18:15 to 19:35 EDT)
IEEE SA Liaisons with Organizations External to IEEE
Tutorial #2 (19:45 to 21:05 EDT)
IEEE 802.15 Activities - Recent and New (Security, BAN/VAN and Surface Wave Communications)