@techreport{chen-bier-te-enc-00, number = {draft-chen-bier-te-enc-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chen-bier-te-enc-00}, author = {Huaimo Chen and Mike McBride and Ran Chen and Gyan Mishra and Aijun Wang and Yanhe Fan and Lei Liu and Xufeng Liu}, title = {{BIER-TE Encapsulation with Multiple BitStrings}}, pagetotal = 17, year = 2022, month = mar, day = 4, abstract = {This document describes a "Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic Engineering" (BIER-TE) header, two levels of Bit Index Forwarding Tables (BIFTs) and a forwarding procedure for efficiently processing BIER-TE packets with the header. For a multicast packet with an explicit point-to-multipoint (P2MP) path, which has multiple BitStrings, the packet with the header containing the BitStrings is replicated and forwarded statelessly along the path.}, }