An overview to the family of IEEE 802® standards is provided in this standard. It describes the reference models for the IEEE 802 standards and explains the relationship of these standards to the higher layer protocols; it specifies the structure of IEEE 802 MAC addresses; it specifies identification of public, private, prototype, and standard protocols; it specifies an object identifier hierarchy used within IEEE 802 for uniform allocation of object identifiers used in IEEE 802 standards; and it specifies a method for higher layer protocol identification. (The PDF of this standard is available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/browse/standards/get-program/page/series?id=68 through the IEEE GET program.)