%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-bier-idr-extensions-16 instead of this revision. @techreport{ietf-bier-idr-extensions-14, number = {draft-ietf-bier-idr-extensions-14}, 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/14/}, author = {Xiaohu Xu and Mach Chen and Keyur Patel and IJsbrand Wijnands and Tony Przygienda and Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang}, title = {{BGP Extensions for BIER}}, pagetotal = 14, year = , month = , day = , abstract = {Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is a new multicast forwarding architecture that doesn't require an explicit tree-building protocol and doesn't require intermediate routers to maintain per-tree multicast states. Some BIER-specific information and state, which are only in proportion to the network but not per-tree, do need to be advertised, calculated, and maintained. This document describes BGP extensions for advertising the BIER information and methods for calculating BIER states based on the advertisement in a single Administrative Domain.}, }