%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-bier-idr-extensions-16 instead of this revision. @techreport{ietf-bier-idr-extensions-03, number = {draft-ietf-bier-idr-extensions-03}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bier-idr-extensions/03/}, author = {Xiaohu Xu and Mach Chen and Keyur Patel and IJsbrand Wijnands and Tony Przygienda}, title = {{BGP Extensions for BIER}}, pagetotal = 7, year = 2017, month = aug, day = 9, abstract = {Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is a new multicast forwarding architecture which doesn't require an explicit tree-building protocol and doesn't require intermediate routers to maintain any multicast state. BIER is applicable in a multi-tenant data center network environment for efficient delivery of Broadcast, Unknown-unicast and Multicast (BUM) traffic while eliminating the need for maintaining a huge amount of multicast state in the underlay. This document describes BGP extensions for advertising the BIER-specific information. These extensions are applicable in those multi-tenant data centers where BGP instead of IGP is deployed as an underlay for network reachability advertisement. These extensions may also be applicable in other scenarios.}, }