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It’s just the serial number allocated to that group of standards, for example networking is 802, parallel printer ports are 1284 and Firewire is 1394. Many of these groups contain further related standards which are given a decimal notation, for example you have Ethernet as 802.3 and WiFi as 802.11 which are part of the network group (802).
