%% You should probably cite draft-chen-bier-egress-protect-07 instead of this revision. @techreport{chen-bier-egress-protect-01, number = {draft-chen-bier-egress-protect-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-bier-egress-protect/01/}, author = {Huaimo Chen and Mike McBride and Aijun Wang and Gyan Mishra and Yisong Liu and Yanhe Fan and Lei Liu and Xufeng Liu}, title = {{BIER Egress Protection}}, pagetotal = 20, year = 2021, month = feb, day = 21, abstract = {This document describes a mechanism for fast protection against the failure of an egress node of a "Bit Index Explicit Replication" (BIER) domain. It does not have any per-flow state in the core of the domain. For a multicast packet to an egress node of the domain, when the egress node fails, its upstream hop as a PLR sends the packet to the egress' backup node once the PLR detects the failure.}, }