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March 2026 Plenary Session – Security TG Agenda

The Security Task Group agenda gives precedence to formally submitted maintenance requests on published standards, approved projects, PAR (Project Authorization Request) development previously approved by 802.1, and other matters arising, in that order.

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Agenda

[See individual project status for links to working documents and contributions]

  1. Meeting introduction
  2. Approval of agenda
  3. P802.1AReg Secure Device Identity: Support for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm
    P802.1AReg/D1.1 updated following Working Group Ballot resolution
    D1.0 Working Group Recirculation Ballot disposition of comments
  4. P802.1AEef MAC Security: Ascon Cipher Suite
    Discussion, proposal to forward to WG Ballot.
    P802.1AEef/D0.3 updated following Task Group Ballot resolution
    D0.1 Task Group Ballot disposition of comments
  5. “augment” and “when” in the 802.1AE SecY and Pry YANG modules
    See the base text for the Revision of IEEE Std 802.1AE-2018-Rev (P802.1AE-2018-Rev/D1.0) pg 273 line 63 and pg 287 line 23.
    Note: this agenda item may be discussed in the Maintenance Task Group or Yangsters sessions.
  6. MKA optimization
    Discussion
    Past contributions include “Tweaking MACsec Cipher Suites”, and “MKA optimization for group CAs”. See 802.1 Security TG Minutes for the March, July, and September 2025 sessions for additional background and detail.
  7. A.O.B.
  8. Future meetings/teleconferences

The 802.1 calendar includes access details for electronic meetings. During this Interim Session, Security TG meetings are scheduled for Wednesday March 11 10.30-12.30, 13.30-15.30, and 16.00-18.00 PST (Vancouver, BC) and Thursday March 12 08.00-10.00 PST. Times for discussion of specific subjects will be discussed as part of agenda item 2 (Approval of agenda) and may change during the course of the session. Items of Any Other Business (A.O.B. agenda item 7) will receive time as convenient, and Future meetings (agenda item 7) will be discussed prior to the close of business.

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