@techreport{zhang-bier-across-non-bier-nodes-00, number = {draft-zhang-bier-across-non-bier-nodes-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-bier-across-non-bier-nodes/00/}, author = {Zheng Zhang and fangwei hu}, title = {{CONFORMANCE OF ACROSSING NON-BIER NODES}}, pagetotal = 6, year = 2015, month = dec, day = 21, abstract = {Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that provides optimal multicast forwarding through a "multicast domain", without requiring intermediate routers to maintain any per-flow state or to engage in an explicit tree-building protocol. There may be some routers which could not support BIER technology (We name them as non-BIER node in this document) in the BIER domain when deployed. This document specifies a solution for the BIER packet transiting the non-BIER nodes.}, }