1. IEEE 1914 NGFI IEEE 1914.3 RoE TF Opening Report
TF Chair: Richard Tse, Microsemi
Editor: Richard Maiden, Intel
WG Chair: Jinri Huang
Dec 5, 2017
Suzhou, China

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4. Agenda What’s happened since last face-to-face
WG Recirculation Ballot results
Sponsor Ballot process
History of P1914.3

5. What’s happened since Sept 2017
4 teleconferences to resolve remaining comments in D2.1
WG Recirculation Ballot (Nov 15-26, 2017)

6. Success!! Draft D2.1 passed WG balloting!!! 32 editorial comments
15 technical comments, just 1 which is difficult
Vote Category
Vote Count
Approve 9
Approve with Comments 3
Disapprove 1
Abstain
Comments Only (for non-voting participants)
No participation from voting members 2

7. Sponsor Ballot Resolve all comments for D2.1
Make decisions on all comments at this meeting
Ready sponsor ballot draft by next week
Start IEEE sponsor ballot process ( and send draft to IEEE editing committee (30 days)
Run sponsor ballot (30 days)
Participation > 75%
Approval > 75% (approve / (approve + disapprove))
Absentions < 30%
Address comments (TBD, depends on the comments)
Run recirculation sponsor ballot (10 days)
Hope to get sufficient votes on this draft to pass
Get final approval at April, 2018 RevCom meeting

8. A little history of IEEE 1914.3
Started as IEEE
First meeting was Feb 3, 2015
Changed to IEEE for Sept, 2016 meeting
This is the 19th plenary meeting for P P1914.3
7 drafts created to this point

9. A little history of IEEE 1914.3
Two WG ballots + one WG recirculation ballot were run
D1.1: 68 comments
D2.0: 325 comments
D2.1: 47 comments