@techreport{chen-bier-te-egress-protect-07, number = {draft-chen-bier-te-egress-protect-07}, 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-te-egress-protect/07/}, 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-TE Egress Protection}}, pagetotal = 17, year = 2024, month = mar, day = 28, abstract = {This document describes a mechanism for fast protection against the failure of an egress node of an explicit point to multipoint (P2MP) multicast path/tree in a "Bit Index Explicit Replication" (BIER) Traffic Engineering (TE) domain. It does not have any per-flow state in the core of the domain. For a multicast packet to the egress node, 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.}, }