Dear Colleagues,
This is the announcement of the electronic IEEE 802.3 Working Group initial ballot on the IEEE P802.3dm Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet amendment. Remember that voting, as well as attendance, is a requirement to maintain your IEEE 802.3 member (voter) status <
http://ieee802.org/3/rules/member.html#DOT3>. Instructions for accessing the draft, casting your ballot, and submitting comments follow this announcement. Please review the commenting instructions below to ensure you are using the most up-to-date tools.
The ballot group for this draft is the IEEE 802.3 voting membership as of Thursday 14th May 2026.
BALLOT SCOPE:
As a Working Group initial ballot, the scope of the ballot is the complete IEEE P802.3dm draft.
CRITERIA FOR STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT:
One of the responsibilities as a balloter is to ensure that draft is consistent with the criteria for standards development (CSD) responses which are available at <
https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/24/ec-24-0074-00-ACSD-p802-3dm.pdf>. An Approve vote indicates your agreement that the draft is consistent with the CSD responses.
BALLOT OPEN:
Thursday 14th May 2026
BALLOT CLOSE:
Saturday 13th June 2026 23:59 AOE
The Project Authorization Request for this Amendment is available at <
https://www.ieee802.org/3/dm/P802.3dm_PAR.pdf> and includes the following:
TITLE:
IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet
SCOPE OF PROJECT:
The scope of this project is to specify additions to and appropriate modifications of IEEE Std 802.3 to add Physical Layer specifications and management parameters for electrical media and operating conditions that are optimized for automotive end-node camera links for operation up to 10 Gb/s in one direction and with a lower data rate in the other direction.
NEED FOR THE PROJECT:
Automotive in-vehicle networks are transitioning to Ethernet. High-bandwidth links such as imaging sensors at end-nodes of the network where the backchannel is low bandwidth are important parts of this transition. These end-nodes are highly constrained on complexity and power consumption and converting them to Ethernet will require solutions specified for their operating conditions.
Thank you for your participation in this ballot and careful review of the draft.
David Law
Chair, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group
Email:
david_law@xxxxxxxx
Natalie Wienckowski
Chair, IEEE P802.3dm Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet Task Force
Email:
natalie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR BALLOTING ON: IEEE P802.3dm draft D2.0
Instructions for accessing the ballot documents, casting your ballot, and submitting comments follow.
HOW TO ACCESS THE DRAFT
The draft is posted for your review for balloting purposes only, and neither the draft nor access information should be copied or redistributed to others in violation of document copyrights.
The IEEE P802.3dm Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet draft D2.0 may be downloaded from:
URL: <
https://www.ieee802.org/3/dm/private/drafts/P8023dm_D2p0.pdf>
This document is posted in Adobe "pdf" document format and can be downloaded and printed if desired. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, it is available for free downloading from:
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http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html>
HOW TO CAST YOUR BALLOT
To assure your ballot is counted, please:
1) Send your ballot to:
stds-802-3-ballot@xxxxxxxx
2) Paste the following line into the subject field:
IEEE P802.3dm Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet D2.0 ballot
This can be done with this link <mailto:
stds-802-3-ballot@xxxxxxxx?subject=IEEE%20P802.3dm%20Asymmetrical%20Electrical%20Automotive%20Ethernet%20D2.0%20ballot>
3) Paste into the message body and complete the ballot form below:
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IEEE P802.3dm Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet D2.0 ballot
Your Name:___________________________
___ APPROVE ALL WITHOUT COMMENT
___ APPROVE ALL WITH COMMENTS on SOME
(All comments are non-binding)
___ DISAPPROVE
(Some or all comments are binding; a voter must submit specific comments for remedy)
___ ABSTAIN, Lack of Expertise
___ ABSTAIN, Lack of Time
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HOW TO SUBMIT COMMENTS
Acceptable comment types:
E = Editorial
ER = Editorial Required (a binding comment that is part of a DISAPPROVE vote, therefore only appropriate for an IEEE 802.3 voting member)
T = Technical
TR = Technical Required (a binding comment that is part of a DISAPPROVE vote, therefore only appropriate for an IEEE 802.3 voting member)
1. Prepare your comments in one of the following two ways. You are STRONGLY REQUESTED to use the spreadsheet. A comment entry tutorial is available at:
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http://ieee802.org/3/ballots/p802d3_comment_entry_tutorial.pdf>
a. Access the comment spreadsheet at the URL:
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http://www.ieee802.org/3/WG_tools/spreadsheet/802d3_TFR_WGB_comments.xls>
b. To submit comments in text (ASCII) form, please use the form below. This will make it possible for the editor to properly record and track all submissions. Make as many copies of the template as necessary and submit as an ASCII text file or as part of your email.
PLEASE NOTE: The ASCII method involves a manual transcription; hence you are recommended to check your comments to ensure accurate transcription when the comment file is made available. Please use one of the comment tools above if possible.
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CommenterName:
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Comment:
CommentEnd:
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2. Send your comments to:
stds-802-3-ballot@xxxxxxxx and paste into the subject line:
IEEE P802.3dm Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet D2.0 comments
This can be done with this link <mailto:
stds-802-3-ballot@xxxxxxxx?subject=IEEE%20P802.3dm%20Asymmetrical%20Electrical%20Automotive%20Ethernet%20D2.0%20comments>
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