BIER Penultimate Hop Popping
draft-ietf-bier-php-04
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Author | Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang | ||
Last updated | 2020-05-03 (Latest revision 2019-10-31) | ||
RFC stream | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
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Additional resources | Mailing list discussion | ||
Stream | WG state | In WG Last Call | |
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IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) can be used as provider tunnel for Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN) [RFC6514], Global Table Multicast [RFC7716] or Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) [RFC7432]. It is possible that not all routers in the provider network support BIER and there are various methods to handle BIER incapable transit routers. However those methods assume the MVPN/ EVPN Provider Edges (PEs) are BIER capable. This document specifies a method to allow BIER incapable routers to act as MVPN/EVPN PEs with BIER as the transport, by having the upstream BIER Forwarding Router (BFR) that is connected directly or indirectly via a tunnel to a BIER incapable PE remove the BIER header and send the payload to the PE.
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