View source for IEEE Networking Standards

802 is a family of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) working groups and standards for local area networks (LAN), personal area networks (PAN), and metropolitan area networks (MAN). 
* [https://1.ieee802.org/ 802.1] develops networking best practices.
* [https://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ 802.3] does MAC+PHY for wired Ethernet.
* [http://www.ieee802.org/11/ 802.11] handles WiFi.
Their WG web pages are <i>ugly</i>.

Ones worth knowing include:

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! Standard !! Year !! Common name !! Topic
|-
| 802.1d 
| 1990, 1998, 2004
| Bridges
| Bridging and spanning trees<br/>802.1d-2004 incorporates 802.1w
|-
| 802.1q
| 1998, 2003, 2014, 2018
| VLANs
| Virtual LANs<br/>802.1q-2014 incorporates 802.1aq
|-
| 802.1w
| 2001
| RSTP
| Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
|-
| 802.1ad
| 2011
| QinQ
| "Stacked VLANs" (multiple VLAN tags in a frame) / Provider bridges
|-
| 802.1ah
| 2008
| PBB/MAC-in-MAC
| Provider backbone bridges
|-
| 802.1aq
| 2012
| SPB
| Shortest path bridging
|-
| 802.3ad
| 2000
| Link aggregation
| L2 port trunking
|-
| 802.3ae
| 2002
| [[10GbE]]
| 10 Gigabit Ethernet over fiber
|-
| 802.3an
| 2006
| [[10GbE|10GBASE-T]]
| 10 Gigabit Ethernet over Cat-5e/Cat-6/Cat-6A twisted pair
|-
| 802.3ax
| 2008
| Link aggregation
| Became 802.1ax
|-
| 802.3ba
| 2010
| 40GbE and [[100GbE]]
| 4x25 or 10x10 Gigabit Ethernet over copper/MMF/SMF
|-
| 802.3bg
| 2011
|
| 40Gb/s PMD compatible with existing OC-768/ODU3
|-
| 802.3bj
| 2014
|
| 100Gb/s PHY for backplanes and twinaxial copper
|-
| 802.3bm
| 2015
| 40GBASE-ER4 and 100GBASE-SR4
| 40Gb/s over SMF and 100Gb/s over MMF
|-
| 802.3bq
| 2016
| 40GBASE-T
| 25/40 Gigabit Ethernet over Cat-8 twisted pair
|-
| 802.3by
| 2016
| 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T
| 2.5/5 Gigabit Ethernet over Cat-5e/Cat-6 twisted pair
|-
| 802.3cd
| 2018
|
| MAC for 50Gb/s, 100Gb/s, and 200Gb/s
|-
| 802.11a
| 1999
| WiFi 1
| 54Mbps on 5GHz
|-
| 802.11b
| 1999
| WiFi 2
| 11Mbps on 2.4GHz
|-
| 802.11g
| 2003
| WiFi 3
| 54Mbps on 2.4GHz
|-
| 802.11n
| 2009
| WiFi 4
| 20/40MHz on 2.4GHz/5GHz
|-
| 802.11ac
| 2013
| WiFi 5
| 80/160MHz on 5GHz
|-
| 802.11ax
| 2021
| WiFi 6/6E
| 1GHz–6GHz wireless
|-
| 802.11be
| 2024?
| WiFi 7
| 40Gbps?
|-
| 802.11bn
| 2028?
| WiFi 8
| ?
|-
| 802.11ad
| 2012
| WiGig
| 6.76Gbps on 60GHz
|-
| 802.11ah
| 2017
| WiFi HaLow
| 234Mbps on 900MHz
|-
| 802.11ay
| 2020
| WiGig 2
| 277Gbps on 60GHz
|-
| 802.15.4
| 2003, 2006, 2011, 2015
| LR-WPAN
| Low-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks
|-
| 802.16
| 2001
| WirelessMAN/WiMAX
| Fixed Broadband Wireless Access (10--66GHz)
|-
| 1901.1
| 2010
| BPL
| Mid-Frequency (<12MHz) Power Line Communications 
|-
| 1901.2
| 2012
| BPL
| Low-Frequency (<500KHz) Power Line Communications
|-
| 1905.1
| 2014
| ?
| Convergent Digital Home Networking
|-
|}