10GBASE-T Study Group
Procedures for Presenters

Requesting Presentation Time

• Presenters shall request time by Wednesday of the week preceding the meeting.
• Requests shall be submitted to the Chair.
• The presenter shall provide the following information:
  • Name of presenter
  • Title of presentation
  • Length of time requested (this should include time for questions and answers)

• If the "requesting presentation time" deadline is missed, time will be provided on a best-effort basis following the completion of the regular agenda (or as deemed appropriate by the chair).

Presentation Submission

• A PDF, soft-copy version of the presentation shall be emailed to the Chair by Wednesday of the week preceding the meeting.

• If the presentation submission deadline is missed, the presenter will be allowed to present only if electronic copies (CD-ROM, PCMCIA flash card, USB drive, floppy disk) or hard copies of the presentation are made available to the group at the beginning of the meeting.

• Presentations shall be available to the group a minimum of 24 hours before a motion can be made on any material contained within the presentation.

Presentation Style Guidelines

• Failure to meet guidelines may result in a loss of requested presentation time.
• Presentations must be submitted in PDF format.  Neither the chair nor the Web Master will convert presentations to PDF format.  Presentations not in PDF format will be returned.
• Avoid graphic intensive backgrounds or other decorative graphics.
• No animations, audio clips, video clips, etc.
• Presentation should be less then 1.4 MB.
• No marketing pitches, product pitches or corporate pitches.
• No pricing, costs, ASPs, etc. are permitted.  Relative costs, ASPs, etc. are permitted (i.e. option 1 is 3x the cost of option 2).
• No company copyright or confidentiality statements.  All presentations are posted to a publicly available web site.  If the presentation is not ready for public disclosure, then it should not presented.
• 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:

  • Title :- Title of presentation
  • Subject :- IEEE 802.3 10GBASE-T Study Group
  • Author :- Name(s) of author(s)

Document Information Fields

The 'Document Information' fields in a PDF file can be entered as follows:

• Adobe Acrobat: Either use the menu options: 'File' -> 'Document Info' -> 'General' or the shortcut CTRL-D.
• Adobe PDFWriter: When the 'Save PDF File As' dialog appears hit the 'Edit Document Info.' button, enter the information, and then hit the 'OK' button.