@techreport{ietf-bier-ping-18,
    number =    {draft-ietf-bier-ping-18},
    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-ping/18/},
    author =    {Nagendra Kumar Nainar and Carlos Pignataro and Mach Chen and Greg Mirsky},
    title =     {{Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Ping and Trace}},
    pagetotal = 35,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jan,
    day =       7,
    abstract =  {Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is a multicast forwarding architecture designed to simplify and optimize multicast delivery. This document describes the mechanism and basic BIER OAM packet format that can be used to perform failure detection and isolation on the BIER data plane without any dependency on other layers, like the IP layer.},
}