[802.3_DIALOG] IEEE 802.3 November 2026 plenary session announcement - Registration Fee Required

["Law, David" <0000363ca596b6f2-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,

IEEE 802.3 will hold its November 2026 plenary session from Monday, 9 November 2026, through Thursday, 12 November 2026. 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 ICT (UTC +7) on Monday, 9 November 2026, and the IEEE 802.3 Working Group closing plenary meeting will start at 13h15 ICT on Thursday, 12 November 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 IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee session announcement, registration and current hotel information can be found through the 'Next IEEE 802.3 meeting notice' link <https://www.ieee802.org/3/interims/index.html>. To receive email updates and reminders for the plenary sessions, subscribe to the stds-802-ALL reflector <https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=stds-802-ALL&A=1>. Payment of a registration fee is REQUIRED BY ANYONE WHO ATTENDS ANY MEETING, IN PERSON OR REMOTE, held during this plenary session. The registration website can be accessed directly at <https://cvent.me/vmxvPy>.

The draft agendas, as well as liaison letters received so far, are available in the meeting minutes area <https://www.ieee802.org/3/minutes/nov26/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 Bangkok, Thailand.

David Law
  Chair, IEEE 802.3 Working Group
  mailto:david_law@xxxxxxxx
  +44 1631 563729


IEEE 802.3 Business
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Working Group Home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/index.html>

In addition to regular Working Group business, there will be subgroup business based on the status below.

IEEE 802.3 Maintenance Task Force
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Task Force Home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/maint/index.html>

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 before the plenary session to maximise attendance.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr Adam Healey.


IEEE P802.3dj 200 Gb/s, 400 Gb/s, 800 Gb/s, and 1.6 Tb/s Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <https://ieee802.org/3/dj/index.html>

The IEEE P802.3dj project expects to have completed the third Standards Association recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3dj draft D3.3 and the associated comment resolution, and to have submitted the draft to RevCom, before the November 2026 plenary session. If a fourth Standards Association recirculation ballot is required in parallel to RevCom submission, resolution of comments received during that ballot will be conducted during the November plenary session at a joint meeting with the IEEE P802.3dv Task Force.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair, Mr John D'Ambrosia.


IEEE P802.3dm Asymmetrical Electrical Automotive Ethernet Task Force
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Task Force home page: <https://ieee802.org/3/dm/index.html>

The IEEE P802.3dm Task Force expects to consider comments received during the third Working Group recirculation ballot of IEEE P802.3dm draft D2.3, which is planned to close before the plenary session. Since the IEEE P802.3dm draft is nearing completion of the Working Group ballot process, the IEEE P802.3dm Task Force expects to seek approval to proceed to Standards Association.

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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Task Force home page: <https://ieee802.org/3/dp/index.html>

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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Task Force home page: <https://ieee802.org/3/dq/index.html>

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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Task Force home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/dr/index.html>

IEEE Std 802.3-2022/Cor2-2026 IEEE Standard for Ethernet - Corrigendum 2: Multi-Gigabit Optical Automotive Ethernet TDFOM Normalization Factors was approved as an IEEE Standard on Friday, 25 September 2026. The work of the IEEE P802.3-2022/Cor 2 (IEEE 802.3dr) Task Force is therefore complete.

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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Task Force home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/ds/index.html>

The IEEE P802.3ds 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 Mabud Choudhury.


IEEE P802.3dt Ethernet Metadata Services Task Force
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Task Force home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/dt/index.html>

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 Pro Tem, Mr Gary Nicholl.


IEEE 802.3dv 400 Gb/s/lane Task Force
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Task Force home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/dv/index.html>

Following approval of the IEEE P802.3dv PAR by the IEEE SA Standards Board on Friday, 25 September 2026, and with the Task Force having already begun its work, the IEEE 802.3dv 400 Gb/s/lane Task Force will continue to select baseline proposals that satisfy the project objectives and develop these towards a technically complete draft suitable for Working Group ballot.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair Pro Tem, Mr Kent Lusted.


IEEE 802.3dw Fault Managed Power (FMP) Ethernet Interoperability Task Force
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Task Force home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/dw/index.html>

Following approval of the IEEE P802.3dw PAR by the IEEE SA Standards Board on Friday, 25 September 2026, this will be the first meeting of the IEEE 802.3dw FMP Ethernet Interoperability Task Force. The Task Force will begin the process of selecting baseline proposals that satisfy the project objectives and developing these towards a technically complete draft suitable for Working Group ballot.

Questions about the Task Force can be addressed to the Task Force Chair Pro Tem, Mr Bob Voss.


IEEE 802.3 PLCA Enhancements Study Group 
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Study Group home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/EPLCA/index.html>

The Study Group has developed and approved the draft IEEE P802.3dx IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Enhancements PAR and supporting CSD. The draft PAR and CSD 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:

Draft PAR: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-lmsc/dcn/26/lmsc-26-0252-00-LMSC-ieee-p802-3dx-draft-par.pdf>
Draft CSD responses: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802-lmsc/dcn/26/lmsc-26-0253-00-LMSC-ieee-p802-3dx-draft-csd.pdf>

The Study Group also plans to request rechartering.

Questions about the Study Group can be addressed to the Study Group Chair Pro Tem, Ms Natalie Wienckowski.


IEEE 802.3 Power Distribution Coordinating Committee (PDCC) Ad Hoc
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Ad Hoc home page: <https://ieee802.org/3/ad_hoc/PDCC/index.html>

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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Ad Hoc home page: <http://www.ieee802.org/3/ad_hoc/ngrates/index.html>

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.

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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Ad Hoc home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/ad_hoc/COM/index.html>

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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Ad Hoc home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/ad_hoc/YANGOS/index.html>

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.


IEEE 802.3 Rules
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IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group Operating Rules home page: <https://www.ieee802.org/3/rules/index.html>

No 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 ICT on Tuesday, 10 November 2026. An IEEE 802.3 PAR Review Ad Hoc will be held from 16:00 to 17:00 UTC on Monday, 26 October 2026.

IEEE P802.1Qek Amendment: Additions for Robustness in Engineered Networks
PAR: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/ek-draft-PAR-0926-v01.pdf
CSD: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/ek-draft-CSD-0926-v01.pdf

IEEE P802.11bu Enhancements to enable AI Offload
PAR: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/26/11-26-1477-00-0aio-draft-p802-11bu-par.pdf
CSD: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/26/11-26-0979-07-0aio-initial-csd-discussion.docx

IEEE P802.15.17 Wireless Specialty Networks: Surface Wave Communication Networks
PAR: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/26/15-26-0404-01-swcs-p802-15-17-draft-par-from-myproject.pdf
CSD: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/26/15-26-0357-03-swcs-proposed-text-draft-for-csd-of-surface-wave-communication.doc

IEEE P802.15.4af Amendment: O-QPSK Physical Layer (PHY) Extensions for Sub-1 GHz Operation 
PAR: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/26/15-26-0405-02-opex-p802-15-4af-draft-par-from-myproject.pdf
CSD: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/26/15-26-0387-02-opex-sg-opex-draft-csd.docx

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 (18:15-19:35 ICT)
 IEEE Innovation Committee

Tutorial #2 (19:45-21:05 ICT)
 YANG in IEEE 802 (Introduction, Guidelines, and Examples)

For more information, please see https://ieee802.org/Tutorials.html

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