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March 2026 Plenary Session in Vancouver, BC, Canada

(with provision to support mixed mode)

Registration fee is required to attend this session in person or remotely.

Schedule

See also the 802.1 WG calendar and the 802 schedule and onsite rooms.
Note that the meetings are scheduled in Pacific Time (PT).

Opening Report

Opening Plenary Meeting Slides

Agendas: 802.1 / 802.15 Joint | Maintenance | Nendica | Security | TSN | YANGsters | YANG SC

Voting Member – Cast your vote

Closing Plenary Meeting Slides

Closing Report

PDF of approved session minutes (taking precedence over the following auto-generated text)

IEEE 802.1 Working Group

March 9-12, 2026 Plenary Session

Vancouver, BC, Canada – Mixed Mode

Session Minutes

The Working Group (WG) Chair, Glenn Parsons, presided and had requested that any subgroup Chair in remote attendance have on-site an individual acting on their behalf as needed to help conduct proceedings in “mixed mode”, i.e. with local and remote participants.

The Recording Secretary, Jessy Rouyer, wrote and/or edited the minutes in part based on input from subgroup Chairs and their Secretaries.

Note that, throughout this document, minuted/recorded inputs from any attendee can not/shall not be assumed to represent a position of their employer or affiliated organization. Discussion points captured do not necessarily reflect the views of the presenter, discussion leader or minute taker, and do not imply consensus unless that is explicitly minuted. The content of draft standards is determined by the ballot process; other formal decisions are the subject of Working Group motions.

1 Attendance and affiliation

The table in this section reflects the attendance (denoted by the ● symbol) and affiliation of attendees in all 802.1 WG and subgroup meetings held in this session. Also see section 4.

2 802.1 Officers and Leadership

  • Chair: Glenn Parsons
  • Vice-Chair and Recording Secretary: Jessy Rouyer
    • Executive Secretary: Stephan Kehrer
    • Liaison Secretary: Karen Randall
  • Maintenance TG Chair: Mark Hantel
  • Security TG Chair: Mick Seaman
    • Security TG Vice-Chair: Karen Randall
  • TSN TG Chair: János Farkas
    • TSN TG Vice-Chair: David McCall
    • TSN TG Secretary: Johannes Specht
    • IEC/IEEE 60802 Joint Project Chair: Dieter Pröll
  • NENDICA Chair: Roger Marks
    • Nendica Vice-Chair: Johannes Specht
  • YANGsters Chair: Scott Mansfield
    • YANGsters Vice-Chair and Secretary: Stephan Kehrer
  • Maintenance of Email exploder: Mark Hantel and Hal Keen
  • Maintenance of website: Mark Hantel, Roger Marks, John Messenger

3 Opening Plenary Meeting

See section 1 for attendance and affiliation information.

Call to order Mar 9, 2026 at 10:32 PT by the Chair who presided. The Recording Secretary wrote the minutes.

The Chair presented “Opening Plenary March 2026” finalized as http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/minutes/2026-03-opening-plenary-slides.pdf.

During this presentation, the Chair:

  • Introduced the agendas on slide 2 that were tacitly approved.
  • Reminded all participants that access to this session requires a registration fee (slide 3).
  • Provided mixed mode session information (slide 4) and mixed mode guidelines (slides 5-7).
  • Reviewed meeting decorum, including the policies on public reporting, and on photography or recording (slide 8), and called for any members of the press (i.e., anyone reporting publicly on this meeting) who have not already announced themselves to announce their presence.
    • There were no responses to the call.
  • Asked participants to record attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker (slide 9).
  • Reminded the Working Group of the logistics orientation information available https://1.ieee802.org/orientation/ and of the possibility to practice the web-based voting tool to be used for straw polls and for motions at the 802.1 closing plenary meeting (slide 10).
  • Introduced meeting policies to be reviewed at this meeting (slide 11).
  • Showed slides 12 through 16 (reproducing slides 0 through 4 of the IEEE SA PatCom Patent Slides for Standards Development Meetings, separately available at http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/materials.html).
  • The Chair:
    • Presented information on these slides including:
      • Instructions for the WG Chair;
      • Participants have a duty to inform the IEEE;
      • Ways to inform IEEE;
      • Other guidelines for IEEE Working Group meetings; and
      • Patent-related information.
    • Advised WG attendees that:
      • IEEE SA’s patent policy is described in Clause 6 of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws;
      • Early identification of patent claims which may be essential for the use of standards under development is strongly encouraged;
      • There may be Essential Patent Claims of which IEEE is not aware. Additionally, neither IEEE, the WG, nor the WG Chair can ensure the accuracy or completeness of any assurance or whether any such assurance is, in fact, of a Patent Claim that is essential for the use of the standard under development.
    • Made the “Call for Potentially Essential Patents”, i.e. provided an opportunity for participants to identify patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) of which the participant is personally aware and that may be essential for the use of that standard.
      • There were no responses to the call prior to the end of the session.
  • Presented slide 17 thereby providing the following information:
    • IEEE SA’s copyright policy is described in Clause 7 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Bylaws and Clause 6.1 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Operations Manual;
    • Any material submitted during standards development, whether verbal, recorded, or in written form, is a Contribution and shall comply with the IEEE SA Copyright Policy.
  • Showed IEEE SA Copyright Policy slides 18 and 19.
  • Presented slides 20 through 25 reproducing the IEEE SA slides 1 through 6 approved by SASB in January 2026 regarding the IEEE Codes of Ethics and Conduct, participation in the “individual process”, dominance, meeting decorum and rules, and the IEEE ethics reporting line.
  • Made subgroup announcements (slide 26) thereby reminding subgroup Chairs of their obligation to:
    • Remind participant at the start of the first subgroup meeting that the meeting is subject to the policies in “MEETING INTRODUCTION” presentations made available beforehand (as announced in the opening plenary meeting) and, in the case of a Task Group (TG), to make the “Call for Potentially Essential Patents” and minute any responses to it;
    • After any recess, announce that the meeting remains subject to the policies as read and displayed in the opening plenary meeting; and
    • At meeting start and after any recess, ask participants to record attendance in IMAT and, if unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker.
  • Reminded participants of the various plenary session registration fees applying and attendant registration details (slide 27), noting that fee waivers may be granted in advance, exceptionally and listing them (slide 28).
  • Shared information about food and social logistics (slide 29).
  • Provided general information regarding meeting contributions (requested to be uploaded 24 hours prior to presentation), minutes, schedule for all Working Groups, website (slide 30).
  • Introduced 802.1 officers and leadership (slide 31).
  • Reviewed the list of editors (slide 32) and thanked editors for moving the work forward.
  • Discussed 802.1 WG Process (slide 33) including the “New work” process as previously introduced and leveraging Nendica towards vetting all new 802.1 work.
  • Reminded 802.1 voting members of their obligations regarding declaring affiliation(s) and employer(s) (slide 34), keeping affiliation and employer data updated (slide 35), electronic ballots (ePolls) conducted between sessions (slide 36), requesting and retaining voting membership (slide 37), and responding to WG ballot series (including ePolls) as well as regarding the consequences of not responding to WG ballot series (including ePolls) (slide 38).
  • Reviewed the list of 802.1 voters (slide 39), including information about individuals who may gain (slides 40 and 41) or lose (slides 42 and 43) 802.1 voting membership.
  • Reminded individual participants of 802.11 reciprocal credit (slide 44) and 802.3 reciprocal credit (slide 45) at this session.
  • Had Stephan Kehrer, Executive Secretary, introduce information about:
    • The May 2026 interim session (slide 46).
    • The Sep 2026 interim session (slide 47).
    • The Jan 2027 interim session (slide 48).
  • Had the Executive Secretary provide an overview of the schedule for future interim sessions (slide 49):
    • May 2026
      • Co-located with IEEE 802.3 WG, hosted by Huawei as in-person session with provisions to support mixed mode
        • Date: May 11-14, 2026
        • Location: Munich, Germany
    • September 2026
      • Co-located with IEEE 802.3 WG, hosted by ethernet alliance as in-person session with provisions to support mixed mode
        • Date: Sep 14-17, 2026
        • Location: Lisbon, Portugal
    • January 2027
      • Co-located with IEEE 802 Wireless WGs as in-person session with provisions to support mixed mode
        • Date: Jan 11-14, 2027
        • Location: Irvine, CA, USA
  • Provided an overview of the schedule for future plenary sessions (slide 50):
    • July 11-17, 2026 – Montreal, QC, Canada
      • Le Centre Sheraton Montreal
    • Nov 8-13, 2026 – Bangkok, Thailand
      • Marriot Marquis Queen’s Park
    • Mar 14-19, 2027 – Singapore (TBC)
      • Grand Copthorne Waterfront, Singapore (TBC)
    • Jul 11-16, 2027 – Gothenburg, Sweden
      • Gothia Towers
    • Nov 14-19, 2027 – Oahu, HI, USA
      • Hawaiian Village
    • Mar 12-17, 2028 – Bangkok, Thailand (TBC)
      • Marriot Marquis Queen’s Park (TBC)
    • Jul 9-14, 2028 – Montreal, QC, Canada
      • Le Centre Sheraton Montreal
  • Provided pointers to the LMSC schedule of LMSC/WG/TAG meetings to be held during this plenary session (slide 51).
  • Reported the following items out of the 802 LMSC plenary session #141 (slide 52):
    • Fee Waivers granted
    • Elections during Friday closing meeting
      • Dorothy Stanley is the IEEE SA President
    • Decorum Guidance [LMSC-26-015]
    • Venues (LMSC-26-003)
      • Mar 2026 – 1022 attendees – with just over 1/2 in-person – not enough for block
      • Finalizing contracts for venues into 2028
    • 802 rules (LMSC-26-066)
      • LMSC P&P update – Open source LMSC position, PAR review process
      • Chair’s guideline update
    • 802 history ad hoc
      • Tuesday 1230-1330 in Turner
      • IEEE SA would like to review all documents planned for public history archive
  • Introduced IEEE SA staff supporting IEEE 802 (slide 53):
    • Jodi Haasz
      • Senior Manager, Operational Program Management
      • 802 lead, supports 802.1, 802.3 and 802.18
    • Christy Bahn
      • Senior Program Manager, Operational Program Management
      • supports dot11, dot15, dot19 and, dot24 groups
    • Jennifer Santulli
      • Senior Program Manager, Operational Program Management

Available for editorial guidance questions via email

    • Catherine Berger
      • 802 lead editorial support
      • Senior Program and Special Projects Manager, Content Production and Management
  • Pointed to instructions to access IEEE 802 electronic media (slide 54).
  • Provided IEEE 802 program status pointers (slide 55).
  • Provided information about public review (slide 56).
  • Pointed out an 802.1 PAR (slide 57) but no PARs or CSDs from 802 WGs other than 802.1 (slide 58) that is up for vote or finalization during this IEEE 802 plenary session.
  • Had the Liaison Secretary present liaison resources (slide 59), the IEEE 802 liaison list (slide 60), the set of incoming liaisons to be handled by specific subgroups (slide 61), IEEE 802.1 activity in SC 6 (slide 62) as well as a list of anticipated outgoing liaisons (slide 63).
  • Summarized IETF coordination items (slide 64).
  • Provided information about JTC1/SC6 coordination (slide 65), ITU coordination (slide 66—noting the possibility for 802.1Q to be incorporated by reference similarly to how 802.3 is being incorporated by reference as part of ITU-T G.8020.3, and noting the ongoing planning of the tenth joint IEEE 802/ITU-T SG15 workshop to be organized for 802.1 by Jessy Rouyer and for 802.3 by John D’Ambrosia), and meeting to be held with 802.15 during this plenary session (slide 67).
  • Discussed promotion of the work of the WG (slide 68).
  • Discussed 802.1 public visibility messaging (slide 69).
  • Reminded nominations are welcome for the IEEE Fellow program (slide 70) and the various types of IEEE Awards (slide 71) highlighting the various deadlines and encouraging nominations.
  • Noted that WG Chair Awards would be upcoming (slide 72).
  • Provided the anticipation of next actions with respect to the projects in the WG’s current workload (slide 73).
  • Reviewed the timeline for 802.1Q (slide 74) and 802.1AS (slide 75) revisions and amendments.
  • Showed the 802.1 schedule for this plenary session, which was tacitly approved (slide 76).
  • Listed 802.1 leadership and editors’ meetings (slide 77).
  • Requested that subgroup agendas be presented (slide 78):
    • The Chair presented the joint 802.1 & 802.15 meeting agenda on slide 79.
    • The Maintenance TG Chair presented the agenda on slides 80-82.
    • The Security TG Chair presented the agenda on slide 83.
    • The TSN TG Chair presented the agenda on slide 84.
    • The Nendica Vice Chair presented the Nendica report on slides 85-86.
    • The YANGsters Chair presented the agenda on slide 87.
  • Called for Any Other Business (slide 88).
    • No other business was discussed in this meeting.

12:29 PT recess

4 802.1/802.15 Joint Meeting

Between this session and the previous plenary session, no 802.1/802.15 joint meetings were held.

See section 1 for 802.1 attendance and affiliation information and 802.15 session minutes for 802.15 attendance and affiliation information.

The minutes of the 802.1/802.15 joint meeting held Mar 10, 2026 are in “802.15 Joint 802.1/15 Minutes March 2026 Plenary” https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/26/15-26-0204-00-0000-joint-802-1-15-minutes-march-2026-plenary.docx.

5 Maintenance Task Group

Between this session and the preceding session, the IEEE 802.1 Maintenance Task Group (TG) held an electronic meeting whose minutes are incorporated to these session minutes by reference as follows:

See section 1 for attendance and affiliation information.

Call to order Mar 9, 2026 at 16:00 PT by Mark Hantel, IEEE 802.1 Maintenance TG Chair (Chair), who presided and wrote the minutes, assisted by Karen Randall, IEEE 802.1 Liaison Secretary.

Agenda items and dispositions:

1. Meeting introduction and other administrative items. The IEEE SA slides on IEEE SA Patent Policy, Copyright Policy, and Participation Behavior – Individual Method (“Policies”) were provided beforehand as part of “MEETING INTRODUCTION” http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/templates/admin-TG-intro-0326-v01.pdf.

The Chair showed this presentation advising that the following, provided beforehand, applies:

  • Participant behavior shall comply with the outlined requirements;
  • IEEE SA’s Patent Policy is described in Clause 6 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Bylaws;
  • Early identification of patent claims which may be essential for the use of standards under development is strongly encouraged;
  • There may be Essential Patent Claims of which IEEE is not aware. Additionally, neither IEEE, the WG, nor the WG Chair can ensure the accuracy or completeness of any assurance or whether any such assurance is, in fact, of a Patent Claim that is essential for the use of the standard under development.
  • IEEE SA’s copyright policy is described in Clause 7 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Bylaws and Clause 6.1 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Operations Manual;
  • Any material submitted during standards development, whether verbal, recorded, or in written form, is a Contribution and shall comply with the IEEE SA Copyright Policy.

The Chair made the Call for Potentially Essential Patents thereby providing an opportunity for participants to identify patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) of which the participant is personally aware and that may be essential for the use of that standard: there were no responses to this Call prior to the end of the meeting.

The Chair asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker.

2. Approval of agenda. The Chair presented the agenda in https://1.ieee802.org/march-2026-plenary-session-maintenance-tg-agenda/ .

Disposition: The agenda was reviewed, discussed, and agreed (informally, none dissenting) as presented.

3. Maintenance Project Status. The Chair gave a verbal update on P802.1Q-2022-Rev, P802.1ACea, P802.1AB-2016-Rev, P802.1AC-2016-Rev, P802.1CB-2017-Rev, and P802.1X-2020/Cor 1.

Disposition: For information.

4. Karen Randall, IEEE 802.1 Liaison Secretary, gave a verbal update on liaisons (liaisons from November 2025 were sent), reviewed the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 comment response for IEEE Std 802.1AXdz-2025, and reviewed an incoming ITU-T liaison.

Disposition: More discussion necessary.

5. Review of Maintenance Motions. The Chair reviewed and updated the anticipated maintenance motions for this plenary.

Disposition: For information.

6. Comment Review on 802 PARs Under Consideration. No PARs were submitted or reviewed.

Disposition: For information.

7. Review 802.1AS-2025-Revision Draft PAR. The Chair led a discussion and updated the PAR for a revision to IEEE Std 802.1AS-2025.

Disposition: Discussion concluded. Updated PAR: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/as-2025-rev-PAR-0326-v01.pdf.

8. Review of IEEE 802.1 recommendations on IEEE 802 related Smart Grid standards. The Chair led a discussion

Disposition: The Chair updated mentions of the IEEE 802.1-related Smart Grid standards in https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/admin-Hantel-Smartgrid-dot1-opt1-0326-v02.pdf.

17:23 PT recess

Call to order Mar 10, 2026 at 08:00 PT by Mark Hantel, IEEE 802.1 Maintenance TG Chair (Chair), who presided and wrote the minutes, assisted by Karen Randall, IEEE 802.1 Liaison Secretary.

9. P802.1Q-2022-Revision PICS Review. Mick Seaman, P802.1Q-2022-Rev editor, led a review of the PICS.

Disposition: More discussion necessary.

10. Review of Maintenance Items and next steps. The Chair led discussion on maintenance items 374, 392 and 393.

Disposition: More discussion necessary.

11. 802.1CB-REV Auto-configuration Discussion. Max Turner led a discussion on the auto-configuration functionality in P802.1CB-2016-REV.

Disposition: More discussion necessary.

10:01 PT recess

Call to order Mar 10, 2026 at 13:30 PT by Mark Hantel, IEEE 802.1 Maintenance TG Chair (Chair), who presided and wrote the minutes, assisted by Karen Randall, IEEE 802.1 Liaison Secretary.

12. P802.1AB-2016-REV D2.1 Comment Resolution. Paul Bottorff led the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/ab-2016-rev-drafts/d2/802-1AB-2016-Rev-d2-1.pdf.

Disposition: Comments R1-12, R1-10, R1-9, R1-7, R1-8, R1-1, R1-2, R1-3, R1-4, R1-5, and R1-6 were resolved. Final disposition: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/ab-2016-rev-drafts/d2/802-1AB-2016-Rev-d2-1-dis-v01.pdf.

13. 802.1CB-REV Auto-configuration Discussion. Max Turner continued leading a discussion on the auto-configuration functionality in P802.1CB-2016-REV.

Disposition: More discussion necessary.

14. Any Other Business. Jessy Rouyer, P802.1AC-2016-REV editor, presented the final disposition https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/ac-2016-rev-drafts/d1/802-1AC-2016-Rev-d1-1-dis-v03.pdf.

Disposition: For information.

15:13 PT adjournment

6 Security Task Group

Between this session and the preceding session, the IEEE 802.1 Security Task Group (Security TG) held electronic meetings whose minutes are incorporated to these session minutes by reference as follows:

See section 1 for attendance and affiliation information.

Call to order Mar 11, 2026 at 10:32 PT by Mick Seaman, IEEE 802.1 Security TG Chair, who presided and wrote the minutes assisted by Karen Randall, IEEE 802.1 Security TG Vice-Chair.

Agenda items and dispositions:

1. Meeting introduction. The IEEE SA slides on IEEE SA Patent Policy, Copyright Policy, and Participation Behavior – Individual Method (“Policies”) were provided beforehand as part of “MEETING INTRODUCTION” http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/templates/admin-TG-intro-0326-v01.pdf.

The Security TG Chair announced that the meeting is subject to these Policies as read and displayed at the opening plenary meeting.

The Security TG Chair made the Calls for Potentially Essential Patents thereby providing an opportunity for participants to identify patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) of which the participant is personally aware and that may be essential for the use of that standard: there were no responses to these Calls prior to the end of the session.

The Security TG Chair asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker.

2. Approval of agenda. The Security TG Chair presented the agenda in https://1.ieee802.org/march-2026-plenary-session-security-tg-agenda/

Disposition: The agenda was reviewed, discussed and updated as recorded by these minutes.

3. P802.1AReg Secure Device Identity – Amendment: Support for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm. P802.1AReg/D1.1 Working Group Recirculation Ballot resolution. Paul Bottorff, P802.1AReg Editor, presented the WG Recirculation Ballot results and led the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/eg-drafts/d1/802-1AReg-d1-1.pdf.

Discussion:

  • The ballot passed with 100% approval, and 76% response rate. Six purely editorial comments were received from 2 voters. In the absence of any change in SA Ballot the editorial comments could be handled by IEEE SA editorial staff as normal in the pre-publication process.
  • CID4: Question whether the footnote reference is a valid normative reference. The normative reference is in the NIST CSOR registry. The footnote is helpful information as to how to find the registry. No objection to referring to the CSOR as a normative reference (the dated CSOR is in Clause 2 Normative references).

Disposition: Agreed (informally, none dissenting, and to be confirmed in the 802.1 closing plenary meeting at this session) to proceed unchanged to SA ballot with information on the suggested editorial changes in the cover letter. Final disposition: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/eg-drafts/d1/802-1AReg-D1-1-dis-v0.pdf.

4. P802.1Qdt PAR extension. The Security TG Chair showed the PAR extension request form in myProject for discussion and review.

Discussion:

  • Adjust dates to align with reviewers expectations and RevCom calendar.
  • Adjusted dates provide room for delay, and are not targets.

Disposition: Agreed (informally, none dissenting, and to be confirmed in the 802.1 Closing Plenary at this meeting) to submit the PAR extension to LMSC for approval and forwarding to NesCom. Completed downloaded PAR extension form: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/dt-par-ext-0326-v01.pdf.

11:20 PT recess

Call to order Mar 12, 2026 at 13:31 PT by the Security TG Chair, who reminded the meeting that the previously presented and available IEEE SA Patent, Copyright, and Participant Behavior policies applied and repeated the Call for Patents.

5. P802.1AEef MAC Security – Amendment: Ascon Cipher Suite. Mick Seaman, P802.1AEef Editor, led the discussion of current status.

Discussion:

Disposition: Anticipated next: WG Ballot on D1.0.

6. “augment” and “when” in the 802.1AE SecY and PrY YANG modules. The Security TG Chair reported that the potential issues in these modules would be discussed with YANGsters.

7. MKA optimization. The Security TG Chair reported that the prior discussion of general optimization techniques in the Jul 2025 802.1 Security TG session, largely in the context of automotive applications, did not appear to raise a need for standardization at this time.

Disposition: Contributions on the subject welcome.

8. MACsec over/for MPLS.

Disposition: In the absence of the principal contributor on this subject there was no technical discussion at this session. Contributions are welcome.

9. Future meetings/teleconferences. The Security TG will meet during the 802.1 May 2026 interim session in Munich, Germany, and during the 802 July 2026 plenary session in Montreal, QC, Canada. Authorization will be sought at this session for Security TG electronic meetings to address TG matters arising prior to the Jul 2026 session.

14:12 PT adjournment

7 Time-Sensitive Networking Task Group

Between this session and the preceding session, the IEEE 802.1 Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) Task Group (TG) held electronic meetings on generic TSN topics whose minutes are incorporated to these session minutes by reference as follows:

  • Minutes of the TSN TG meeting held 2026-02-10, 11:00 – 13:00 ET

https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=STDS-802-1-MINUTES;833c1c08.26&S=

See section 1 for attendance and affiliation information.

Minutes of the IEC/IEEE 60802 Joint Project meetings are in section 7.1.

Call to order Mar 9, 2026 at 9:00 PT by János Farkas, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Chair (Chair), who presided. Johannes Specht, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Secretary (Secretary), wrote the minutes.

Agenda items and dispositions:

1. Meeting introduction. The IEEE SA slides on IEEE SA Patent Policy, Copyright Policy, and Participation Behavior – Individual Method (“Policies”) were provided beforehand as part of “MEETING INTRODUCTION” http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/templates/admin-TG-intro-0326-v01.pdf.

The Chair showed this presentation advising that the following, provided beforehand, applies:

  • Participant behavior shall comply with the outlined requirements;
  • IEEE SA’s Patent Policy is described in Clause 6 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Bylaws;
  • Early identification of patent claims which may be essential for the use of standards under development is strongly encouraged;
  • There may be Essential Patent Claims of which IEEE is not aware. Additionally, neither IEEE, the WG, nor the WG Chair can ensure the accuracy or completeness of any assurance or whether any such assurance is, in fact, of a Patent Claim that is essential for the use of the standard under development.
  • IEEE SA’s copyright policy is described in Clause 7 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Bylaws and Clause 6.1 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Operations Manual;
  • Any material submitted during standards development, whether verbal, recorded, or in written form, is a Contribution and shall comply with the IEEE SA Copyright Policy.

The Chair made the Calls for Potentially Essential Patents at the beginning of each TG meeting during this session thereby providing an opportunity for participants to identify patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) of which the participant is personally aware and that may be essential for the use of that standard: there were no responses to these Calls prior to the end of the session.

The Chair asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the Secretary.

2. Approval of agenda. The Chair presented the agenda https://1.ieee802.org/2026-03-plenary-tsn-agenda/.

Disposition: The agenda was reviewed, discussed and agreed (informally, none dissenting) as presented.

3. Silvana Rodrigues presented https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/asds-drafts/d2/802-1ASds-d2-1-dis-v00.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed.

4. Martin Mittelberger, P802.1DD editor, led the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dd-drafts/d1/802-1DD-d1-4.pdf.

Disposition: Partial disposition: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dd-drafts/d1/802-1DD-d1-4-pdis-v02.pdf.

10:00 PT recess

Call to order Mar 9, 2026 at 13:30 PT by János Farkas, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Chair (Chair), who presided. Johannes Specht, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Secretary (Secretary), wrote the minutes.

5. The Chair announced that this meeting remains subject to the Policies mentioned in agenda item 1 and asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the Secretary.

6. Jai Kumar et al. presented incoming liaison and communication “CSIG Telemetry Signals, Algorithms, and Applicability” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/liaisons/liaison-UEC-CSIGTelemetrySigsAlgsandApplicability-0326.pdf.

Disposition: For information.

7. Dave Cavalcanti presented incoming liaison and communication “Lessons from ProAV: How MILAN Shows the Path to Scalable TSN Adoption Across Markets” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/liaison-AvnuAlliance-ProAVMILAN-0326.pdf.

Disposition: For information.

8. The Chair presented incoming liaison and communication “Advancing Professional Audio and Video with Time-Sensitive Networking” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/admin-draft-text-for-ProAV-TSN-flyer-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: For information.

9. The Chair presented incoming liaison and communication “Liaison Response on IEEE P1588h draft sharing” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/liaison-IEEE1588-P1588h-draft-sharing.pdf.

Disposition: For information.

10. The Chair led the discussion on “DRAFT IEEE SA blog post | Time-Sensitive Networking for Automotive In-Vehicle Communications” finalized as https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/dg-blog-post-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: Outgoing communication discussed. Further discussion needed.

11. The Chair led the discussion on “DRAFT IEEE SA blog post | Time-Sensitive Networking for Aerospace Onboard Ethernet Communications” finalized as https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/dp-blog-post-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: Outgoing communication discussed. Further discussion needed.

12. The Chair led the discussion of the “Notes on V2X Time Synchronization” slides in “IEEE 802 status report to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 for the hybrid SC 6 meeting in April 2026” https://mentor.ieee.org/802-lmsc/dcn/26/lmsc-26-0082-01-JTC1-ieee-802-status-report-for-sc-6-april-2026.pptx and the drafting of the liaison statement finalized as “Submittal of IEEE 802.1 comments to SC 6N18610” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/liaison-SC6-v2x-time-sync-0326.pdf.

Disposition: Disposition per agenda item 18.

13. Takumi Nomura presented “Proposal for an Automotive Time Synchronization Profile Amendment to IEEE Std. 802.1DG” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/liaison-JASPAR-DGamendmentTimeSyncProfile-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

15:30 PT recess

Call to order Mar 11, 2026 at 10:30 PT by János Farkas, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Chair (Chair), who presided. Johannes Specht, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Secretary (Secretary), wrote the minutes.

14. The Chair announced that this meeting remains subject to the Policies mentioned in agenda item 1 and asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the Secretary.

15. The Chair led the discussion on “Advancing Professional Audio and Video with Time-Sensitive Networking” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/admin-draft-text-for-ProAV-TSN-flyer-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: Outgoing communication discussed.

16. The Chair led the follow-up discussion on “DRAFT IEEE SA blog post | Time-Sensitive Networking for Automotive In-Vehicle Communications” finalized as https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/dg-blog-post-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: Outgoing communication discussed.

17. The Chair led the follow-up discussion on “DRAFT IEEE SA blog post | Time-Sensitive Networking for Aerospace Onboard Ethernet Communications” finalized as https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/dp-blog-post-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: Outgoing communication discussed.

18. The Chair continued leading the discussion of the “Notes on V2X Time Synchronization” slides in “IEEE 802 status report to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 for the hybrid SC 6 meeting in April 2026” https://mentor.ieee.org/802-lmsc/dcn/26/lmsc-26-0082-01-JTC1-ieee-802-status-report-for-sc-6-april-2026.pptx and the drafting of the liaison statement finalized as “Submittal of IEEE 802.1 comments to SC 6N18610” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/liaison-SC6-v2x-time-sync-0326.pdf.

Disposition: Outgoing communication discussed.

19. Hiroki Nakano, P802.1Qdq editor, led the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dq-drafts/d2/802-1Qdq-d2-0.pdf.

Disposition: Disposition per agenda item 33.

12:30 – 13:30 PT recess

20. Takumi Nomura continued the presentation of “Proposal for an Automotive Time Synchronization Profile Amendment to IEEE Std. 802.1DG” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/liaison-JASPAR-DGamendmentTimeSyncProfile-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

21. Hiroki Nakano, P802.1Qdq editor, continued the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dq-drafts/d2/802-1Qdq-d2-0.pdf.

Disposition: Disposition per agenda item 33.

15:30 – 16:00 PT recess

22. Martin Mittelberger, P802.1DD editor, continued the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dd-drafts/d1/802-1DD-d1-4.pdf.

Disposition: Final disposition: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dd-drafts/d1/802-1DD-d1-4-dis-v01.pdf.

23. Martin Mittelberger presented “P802.1DD Comment 27 – Discussion Startup” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/dd-mittelberger-startup-0326-v01.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

24. Abdul Jabbar presented “Minimum Frame Size Filter for PSFP” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/new-jabbar-psfp-MinSDUsize-0326-v02.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

25. Hiroki Nakano, P802.1Qdq editor, continued the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dq-drafts/d2/802-1Qdq-d2-0.pdf.

Disposition: Disposition per agenda item 33.

18:00 PT recess

Call to order Mar 12, 2026 at 8:00 PT by János Farkas, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Chair (Chair), who presided. Johannes Specht, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Secretary (Secretary), wrote the minutes.

26. The Chair announced that this meeting remains subject to the Policies mentioned in agenda item 1 and asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the Secretary.

27. Paul Bottorff presented “CSIG Telemetry Project Scope” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/new-bottorff-csig-scope-0326-v04.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

28. Lihao Chen presented “Backward Notification signals and scope” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/new-chen-bn-0326-v02.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

29. János Farkas presented “P802.1Qee – “Traffic Engineering for Bridged Networks that include Wireless Technologies” Kick-off” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/ee-farkas-kick-off-0326-v00.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

30. Hiroki Nakano, P802.1Qdq editor, continued the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dq-drafts/d2/802-1Qdq-d2-0.pdf.

Disposition: Disposition per agenda item 33.

10:00 – 10:30 PT recess

31. Jessy Rouyer presented “Proposal to publish IEEE Std 802.1Q as an ITU-T Recommendation through referencing” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/liaison-drafting/draft-contribution-ITU-T-SG15-G8020x-0126-v01.docx.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

32. Lihao Chen continued presenting “Backward Notification signals and scope” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/new-chen-bn-0326-v02.pdf.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed.

33. Hiroki Nakano, P802.1Qdq editor, continued the resolution of comments received on https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dq-drafts/d2/802-1Qdq-d2-0.pdf.

Disposition: Partial disposition: https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/dq-drafts/d2/802-1Qdq-d2-0-pdis-v01.pdf.

12:30 PT adjournment

7.1 IEC/IEEE 60802 Joint Project

Between this session and the preceding session, the IEC/IEEE 60802 Joint Project held electronic meetings whose minutes are incorporated to these session minutes by reference as follows:

See section 1 for attendance and affiliation information.

Call to order Mar 10, 2026 at 10:30 PT by Dieter Proell, IEC 65C/WG18 Convenor and IEC/IEEE 60802 Joint Project Chair (60802 Chair), who presided together with János Farkas, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Chair (TSN TG Chair). The 60802 Chair wrote the minutes.

Agenda items and dispositions:

1. Meeting introduction and other administrative items. The IEEE SA slides on IEEE SA Patent Policy, Copyright Policy, and Participant Behavior – Individual Method (“Policies”) were provided beforehand as part of “MEETING INTRODUCTION” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/templates/admin-TG-intro-0326-v01.pdf.

The 60802 Chair announced that the meeting is subject to these Policies as read and displayed at the opening plenary meeting.

The 60802 Chair explained that the IEC/IEEE 60802 Joint Project also follows the IEC patent and copyright policies, https://www.iec.ch/news-resources/reference-material#policy.

The 60802 Chair made the Call for Potentially Essential Patents thereby providing an opportunity for participants to identify patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) of which the participant is personally aware and that may be essential for the use of that standard: there were no responses to this Call prior to the end of the session.

The 60802 Chair asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker.

2. Approval of agenda. The 60802 Chair presented the agenda in https://1.ieee802.org/2026-03-plenary-tsn-agenda/#TSN_8211_IECIEEE_60802.

Disposition: The agenda was reviewed, discussed, and updated as recorded by these minutes.

3. IEC/IEEE 60802 status update. The 60802 Chair gave a verbal status update.

Disposition: For information.

4. Brainstorming on a potential amendment to IEC/IEEE 60802. David McCall presented “TSN Industrial Automation Use Cases” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/60802-industrial-use-cases-ii-0126-v04.pdf.

Disposition: More discussion needed. Review and feedback are encouraged.

11:20 PT adjournment

8 Nendica

Between this session and the preceding session, Nendica held electronic meetings whose minutes are incorporated to these session minutes by reference as follows:

See section 1 for attendance and affiliation information.

Call to order Mar 11, 2026 at 8:00 PT by Johannes Specht, IEEE 802 Nendica Vice Chair (“Chair”) who presided and wrote the minutes.

Agenda items and dispositions:

1. Meeting introduction and other administrative items. The IEEE SA slides on IEEE SA Copyright Policy, and Participant Behavior – Individual Method (“Policies”) were provided beforehand as part of “MEETING INTRODUCTION” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/templates/admin-prePAR-intro-0326-v01.pdf.

The Chair announced that the meeting is subject to these Policies as read and displayed at the opening plenary meeting.

The Chair asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker.

2. Approval of agenda. The Mentor server document list was noted.

Disposition: The agenda was reviewed and agreed (informally, none dissenting) as https://1.ieee802.org/802-nendica-agenda-2026-03-11/.

3. Minutes. The Chair reviewed the draft Minutes of the Nendica meeting held Mar 5, 2026 https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=STDS-802-1-MINUTES;3e2b2149.26&S=.

Disposition: It was agreed (informally, none dissenting) to approve the minutes.

4. Nendica Organization. The Chair announced the Header Compression Workshop on Apr 23, 2026 and presented “Announcement: Header Compression Workshop” https://1.ieee802.org/802-nendica-agenda-2026-04-23/.

Disposition: For information.

5. AICN Study Item. Jieyu Li presented “IEEE 802 Nendica Work Item Proposal: Packet-Level Load Balancing(PLB) in AICN” Rev. 1 https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/documents?is_group=ICne&is_year=2026&is_dcn=0006.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further contributions and discussions welcome.

6. Vetting and New Topics. Zongpeng Du presented “Requirements of Agentic Network and Potential Works in 802.1” Rev. 0 https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/documents?is_group=ICne&is_year=2026&is_dcn=0004.

Disposition: Presentation discussed. Further contributions and discussions welcome.

7. Next meeting. The Chair led the discussion on the date for the next Nendica meeting (either Mar 19, 2026 or Apr 2, 2026).

Disposition: Nendica intends to meet next by electronic teleconference on Mar 19, 2026 09:00-11:00 ET.

8. Other Business. The Chair prepared “Nendica Plenary Session Update, Mar 2026” https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/documents?is_group=ICne&is_year=2026&is_dcn=0007.

9:15 PT adjournment

9 YANGsters

Between this session and the preceding session, YANGsters held electronic meetings whose minutes are incorporated to these session minutes by reference as follows:

See section 1 for attendance and affiliation information.

Call to order Mar 10, 2026 at 16:00 PT by Scott Mansfield, YANGsters Chair, who presided. Stephan Kehrer, YANGsters Secretary, wrote the minutes.

Agenda items and dispositions:

1. Meeting introduction. The IEEE SA slides on IEEE SA Copyright Policy, and Participant Behavior – Individual Method (“Policies”) were provided beforehand as part of “MEETING INTRODUCTION” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/templates/admin-prePAR-intro-0326-v01.pdf.

The YANGsters Chair showed this presentation advising that the following, provided beforehand, applies:

  • Participant behavior shall comply with the outlined requirements;
  • IEEE SA’s copyright policy is described in Clause 7 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Bylaws and Clause 6.1 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Operations Manual;
  • Any material submitted during standards development, whether verbal, recorded, or in written form, is a Contribution and shall comply with the IEEE SA Copyright Policy.

The YANGsters Chair asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker.

2. Approval of agenda. The YANGsters Chair presented the agenda in https://1.ieee802.org/march-10-2026-802-1-and-802-3-interim-session-yangsters-and-yang-sc-agenda-vancouver/.

Disposition: The agenda was reviewed, discussed, and updated as recorded by these minutes.

3. Introduction to YANGsters. The YANGsters Chair presented the “Introduction” slide of “YANGsters” https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2025/yangsters-smansfield-madrid-status-0725-v02.pdf to introduce the following:

Disposition: For information.

4. YANG 802.1 Project Status. The YANGsters Chair presented the topic by showing “YANG Sanity” https://1.ieee802.org/yang-sanity/ and led the discussion.

  • The “YANG Sanity” table at https://1.ieee802.org/yang-sanity/ provides an overview of all currently open IEEE 802.1 projects that contain or are expected to contain YANG.

Disposition: For information.

5. Open Maintenance Item. The YANGsters Chair introduced the topic and led the discussion.

  • Woojung Huh presented “ATS & PFSP YANG maintenance item #0392 & #0393“ https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2026/maintenance-whuh-ATSandPSFP-YANG-0326-v01.pdf regarding maintenance items 392 https://www.802-1.org/items/501 and 393 https://www.802-1.org/items/500.
  • Maintenance item 392 points out that the ATS schedulers and scheduler-groups YANG containers do not align with IEEE Std 802.1Q-2022.
  • It appears that the groupings have been inserted into the YANG module at the wrong level when the module was defined.
  • Correcting the issue requires manual work but is considered to be straightforward by YANGsters.
  • Maintenance item 392 asks for clarification on using stream-filter when a bridge uses both ATS and PSFP.
    • This maintenance item is considered to not be a YANG issue, and it is recommended that the item be further discussed in the Maintenance TG.

Disposition: More discussion needed.

6. IETF News. The YANGsters Chair introduced the topic and led the discussion.

Disposition: for information.

7. Instance Examples. The YANGsters Chair introduced the topic and led the discussion

Disposition: for information.

8. Request for Next Calls. Intersession YANGsters electronic meetings would be held every other week, starting Tuesday, Mar 24, 2026, tentative on 802.1 approval during the 802.1 closing plenary meeting.

  • YANGsters participants are encouraged to contact the YANGsters Chair and YANGsters Vice Chair with topics for future YANGsters electronic meetings.

9. Any Other Business.

  • The augmentation for “derived-from-or-self” in IEEE P802.1X-2020/Cor 1 was discussed.
  • It was discussed that IEEE Std 802.1AE may require the same changes. Whether that is the case or not is to be determined.

17:00 PT adjournment

10 Closing Plenary Meeting

Call to order Mar 12, 2026 at 13:30 PT by the Chair who presided. The Recording Secretary wrote the minutes.

See section 1 for attendance and affiliation information.

The Chair presented “Closing Plenary March 2026” finalized as https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/minutes/2026-03-closing-plenary-slides.pdf.

During this presentation, the Chair:

  • Introduced the agenda on slide 2 that was approved.
  • Reminded all participants that access to this session requires a registration fee (slide 3).
  • Reviewed mixed mode guidelines (slides 4 and 5), audio guidelines for in-person attendees (slide 6), web conferencing guidelines supporting mixed mode (slide 7), meeting decorum including the policies on public reporting, and on photography or recording (slide 8), and called for any members of the press (i.e., anyone reporting publicly on this meeting) who have not already announced themselves to announce their presence.
    • There were no responses to the call.
  • Asked participants to record attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker (slide 9).
  • Reminded the Working Group of the logistics orientation information available https://1.ieee802.org/orientation/ and of the possibility to practice the web-based voting tool to be used for straw polls and for motions at the 802.1 closing plenary meeting (slide 10).
  • Announced that this closing plenary meeting remains subject to the IEEE SA Patent Policy (slides 11 to 16), IEEE SA Copyright Policy (slides 17 to 19) and IEEE SA Participation – Individual Method policy (slides 20 to 25) made available beforehand (as announced in the opening plenary meeting—see section 3).
  • Reminded participants of the various plenary session registration fees applying and attendant registration details (slides 26-27).
  • Provided general information regarding meeting contributions, minutes, schedule for all Working Groups, website (slide 28).
  • Showed the list of 802.1 officers and leadership (slide 29).
  • Recognized the editors of current projects (slide 30).
  • Reminded 802.1 participants and voting members of obligations regarding 802.1 voting membership and how voting membership may be requested and retained (slide 31).
  • Reminded 802.1 voting members of their obligations regarding responding to WG letter ballot series (WG ballots + ePolls) as well as regarding the consequences of not responding to WG letter ballot series (slide 32).
  • Reviewed the list of 802.1 voting members (slide 33), including information about individuals who gained (slide 34), may gain (slide 35), could lose (slide 36), or will lose (slide 37) 802.1 voting membership.
  • Reminded individual participants of 802.11 reciprocal credit (slide 38), 802.3 reciprocal credit (slide 39), both of which were continued at this session, and noted that LMSC reciprocal credit (slide 40) became possible at this session.
  • Provided information about the LMSC elections at this plenary session (slides 41 and 42 ), the WG election process (slide 43), and DirectVoteLive for WG elections (slide 44).
  • Conducted the Chair confirmation vote using the following motion that passed (slide 45):
    • Motion
      • 802.1 confirms Glenn Parsons as the chair of the 802.1 working group
      • Proposed: Nader Zein
      • Seconded: Silvana Rodrigues
      • Y: 31 N: 0 A: 0
  • Conducted the Vice Chair confirmation vote using the following motion that passed (slide 46):
    • Motion
      • 802.1 confirms Jessy Rouyer as the vice-chair of the 802.1 working group
      • Proposed: Stephan Kehrer
      • Seconded: Karen Randall
      • Y: 29 N: 0 A: 0
  • Had the 802.1 Executive Secretary summarize information about the May 2026 (slide 47), Sep 2026 (slide 48), and Jan 2027 (slide 49) interim sessions, summarize the schedule for future interim (slide 50) and plenary (slide 51) sessions, which remained unchanged from the opening plenary meeting.
  • Conducted the following straw polls (slide 52)
    • 1. Would you like to come back to this venue?
          • Yes – 18 No – 9 Abstain – 8 Did not respond – 4
    • 2. Did you go to the social?
          • Yes – 23 No – 6 Abstain – 5 Did not respond – 5
    • 3. Did you like the social?
          • Yes – 13 No – 5 Abstain – 14 Did not respond – 7
  • Provided the anticipation of next actions with respect to projects in the WG’s current workload (slide 53).
  • Showed the updated 802.1 plenary session schedule (slide 54).
  • Requested that the subgroup Chairs provide reports on the activities of their subgroups during this plenary session (slide 55) (see individual subgroup minutes above for details):
    • The Chair presented the report on slide 56.
    • The Maintenance TG Chair presented the report on slides 57-59.
    • The Security TG Chair presented the report on slide 60.
    • The TSN TG Chair presented the report on slide 61.
    • The Nendica Vice Chair presented the report on slides 62-63.
    • The YANGsters Chair presented the report on slides 64-67.
  • Introduced the promotion work of the WG (slide 68) and had the TSN TG Chair provide a verbal update on issuing blog posts for IEEE Stds 802.1DG and 802.1DP/SAE 6675 out of this session and for IEC/IEEE 60802 out of the Jul 2026 session, and on the deadlines applying to the various industry events listed.
  • Summarized public visibility encouraging anyone to volunteer as coordinator for 802.1 (slide 69).
  • Had the Liaison Secretary summarize liaison resources (slide 70), review incoming liaisons reviewed at this session (slide 71), summarize and lead the final review of the set of draft outgoing liaisons updated as finalized and voted (slide 72 and motion slides).
  • Summarized discussion during the ITU SC – ITU Coordination meeting held this session (slide 73).
  • Provided guidance on using DirectVoteLive to vote on motions (slide 74).
  • Following 15:30 – 16:02 PT recess, conducted votes on the following motions (slides 75-127) that all passed unless indicated otherwise. (Supporting information is available in “Closing Plenary March 2026” finalized as https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/minutes/2026-03-closing-plenary-slides.pdf.)

Motions for 802 LMSC

Liaisons and external communications (ME)

Motions for 802 LMSC

Consent Agenda

Drafts to SA Ballot

    • Motion
      • Approve sending P802.1AC-2016-Rev D2.0 to Standards Association ballot

Note: there is no CSD statement since this maintenance project is not intended to provide any new functionality

      • P802.1AC-2016-Rev D1.1 had 100% approval at the end of the last WG ballot
      • In the WG, Proposed: Jessy Rouyer, Second: Mark Hantel
      • Sending draft (y/n/a): 30, 0, 3
    • Motion
      • Approve sending P802.1X-2020/Cor1 D2.0 to Standards Association ballot

Note: there is no CSD statement since this maintenance project is not intended to provide any new functionality

      • P802.1X-2020/Cor1 D1.2 had 100% approval at the end of the last WG ballot
      • In the WG, Proposed: Scott Mansfield, Second: Mark Hantel
      • Sending draft (y/n/a): 30, 0, 1
    • Motion

Motions for 802 LMSC

Consent Agenda

Drafts to RevCom

    • Motion
    • Motion
      • Conditionally approve sending P802.1AB-2016-REV to RevCom

Note: there is no CSD statement since this maintenance project is not intended to provide any new functionality

      • P802.1AB-2016-REV D2.1 had 98% approval at the end of the last SA ballot
      • In the WG, Proposed: Paul Bottorff, Second: Mark Hantel
      • Sending draft (y/n/a): 31, 1, 1

Motions for 802 LMSC

Consent Agenda

Liaisons and external communications (ME)

Administrative

WG Motions

    • Motion
      • 802.1 authorizes the noted subgroups to hold the meetings in the following future meetings table with announcement requirement, agenda and access information as indicated
      • Proposed: Jessy Rouyer
      • Seconded: János Farkas
      • Approved by acclamation

Future meetings table

Subgroup

Topic

Date

Time

Recurrence

Date

Agenda

Agenda

Access Information

annoucements (days prior)

YANGsters

per agenda

Tue 2026-03-24

10:00 – 11:00 ET

every two weeks

motion

5 days

802.1 Minutes email list

https://1.ieee802.org/yangsters/yangsters-call-information/

YANGsters

per agenda

as announced

10 days

10 days

802.1 Minutes email list

https://1.ieee802.org/yangsters/yangsters-call-information/

Maintenance TG

address TG matters

as announced

10 days

10 days

802.1 Minutes email list

https://1.ieee802.org/category/maintenance-tg-agenda/

Maintenance TG

per agenda

Mon 2026-07-13

8:00 – 10:00 local

none

motion

14 days

https://1.ieee802.org/category/maintenance-tg-agenda/

https://1.ieee802.org/meetings/

Security TG

P802.1Qdt and TG matters arising

as announced

10 days

10 days

802.1 Minutes email list

https://1.ieee802.org/security/security-task-group-agenda/

TSN TG

per agenda

Mon 2026-07-13

8:00 – 10:00 local

none

motion

14 days

https://1.ieee802.org/category/tsn-tg-agenda/

https://1.ieee802.org/meetings/

TSN TG

per agenda

Mon 2026-03-23

10:00 – 12:00 ET

weekly

motion

5 days

802.1 Minutes email list

http://www.ieee802.org/1/tsn

TSN TG

progress TG projects and TG matters arising

as announced

10 days

10 days

802.1 Minutes email list

http://www.ieee802.org/1/tsn

Nendica

per agenda

Thu 2026-03-19

9:00 – 11:00 ET

every two
weeks

motion

5 days

802.1 Minutes email list

https://1.ieee802.org/802-nendica/

Nendica

per agenda

as announced

10 days

10 days

802.1 Minutes email list

https://1.ieee802.org/802-nendica/

Nendica

Header Compression Workshop, Joint IEEE 802.3 NEA

Thu 2026-04-23

10:00-14:00 ET

none

10 days

10 days

802.1 Minutes email list

https://1.ieee802.org/802-nendica/

Nendica

WG Motions

YANGsters

WG Motions

Maintenance TG

WG Motions

    • Motion
      • 802.1 authorizes Christophe Mangin, the Editor of P802.1CB-2017-Revision – Frame Replication and Elimination for Reliability, to prepare drafts for and conduct Working Group balloting.
      • Proposed: Mark Hantel
      • Second: Christophe Mangin
      • In the WG (y/n/a): 32, 2, 0
    • Motion
      • 802.1 conditionally authorizes Silvana Rodrigues, the Editor of P802.1AS-2025-REV – Timing and Synchronization for Time-Sensitive Applications to prepare drafts for and conduct Task Group balloting after the SASB approval of the PAR.
      • Proposed: Mark Hantel
      • Second: Silvana Rodrigues
      • In the WG (y/n/a): 33, 1, 1

Security TG

WG Motions

    • Motion
      • Authorize the editor of P802.1AEef, Mick Seaman, to prepare drafts for and conduct Working Group balloting
      • Proposed: Seaman
      • Second: Rouyer
      • For: 30 Against: 1 Abstain: 4

TSN TG

WG Motions

    • Motion
      • 802.1 authorizes the TSN TG to generate PAR and CSD for an amendment to IEEE 802.1DG on time synchronization at the May 2026 interim session for pre-circulation to the LMSC.
      • Proposed: Takumi Nomura
      • Second: Yoshihiro Ito
      • In the WG (y/n/a): 23, 2, 10
    • Motion
      • 802.1 authorizes the TSN TG to generate PAR and CSD for a standard on signaling of telemetry within tags on frames in IEEE 802 networks at the May 2026 interim session for pre-circulation to the LMSC.
      • Proposed: Paul Bottorff
      • Second: Ramesh Sivakolundu
      • In the WG (y/n/a): 30, 0, 6
    • Motion
      • 802.1 authorizes the TSN TG to generate PAR and CSD for a standard on backward notification for congestion signaling at the May 2026 interim session for pre-circulation to the LMSC.
      • Proposed: Lily Lyu
      • Second: Paul Congdon
      • In the WG (y/n/a): 23, 5, 5

Administrative

WG Motions

17:21 ET adjournment

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May 11-14, 2026 mixed mode interim session in Munich, Germany.

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