%% You should probably cite rfc9262 instead of this I-D. @techreport{ietf-bier-te-arch-10, number = {draft-ietf-bier-te-arch-10}, 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-te-arch/10/}, author = {Toerless Eckert and Gregory Cauchie and Michael Menth}, title = {{Tree Engineering for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER-TE)}}, pagetotal = 59, year = 2021, month = jul, day = 10, abstract = {This memo describes per-packet stateless strict and loose path steered replication and forwarding for Bit Index Explicit Replication packets (RFC8279). It is called BIER Tree Engineering (BIER-TE) and is intended to be used as the path steering mechanism for Traffic Engineering with BIER. BIER-TE introduces a new semantic for bit positions (BP) that indicate adjacencies, as opposed to BIER in which BPs indicate Bit- Forwarding Egress Routers (BFER). BIER-TE can leverage BIER forwarding engines with little changes. Co-existence of BIER and BIER-TE forwarding in the same domain is possible, for example by using separate BIER sub-domains (SDs). Except for the optional routed adjacencies, BIER-TE does not require a BIER routing underlay, and can therefore operate without depending on an Interior Gateway Routing protocol (IGP). As it operates on the same per-packet stateless forwarding principles, BIER-TE can also be a good fit to support multicast path steering in Segment Routing (SR) networks.}, }