%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-bier-php-11 instead of this revision. @techreport{ietf-bier-php-04, number = {draft-ietf-bier-php-04}, 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-php/04/}, author = {Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang}, title = {{BIER Penultimate Hop Popping}}, pagetotal = 7, year = 2019, month = oct, day = 31, 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.}, }