Subject: [Bier] FW: I-D Action: draft-kumar-bier-use-cases-00.txt

From: "Nagendra Kumar Nainar (naikumar)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:46:10 +0000

Hi,

Below is a draft on BiER use cases.

Comments welcome.

Thanks,
Nagendra

On 10/25/14, 12:22 PM, "[email-masked]"
<[email-masked]> wrote:

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>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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>        Title           : BIER Use Cases
>        Authors         : Nagendra Kumar
>                          Rajiv Asati
>                          Mach(Guoyi) Chen
>                          Xiaohu Xu
>	Filename        : draft-kumar-bier-use-cases-00.txt
>	Pages           : 7
>	Date            : 2014-10-25
>
>Abstract:
>   Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that
>   provides optimal multicast forwarding through a "BIER domain" without
>   requiring intermediate routers to maintain any multicast related per-
>   flow state.  BIER also does not require any explicit tree-building
>   protocol for its operation.  A multicast data packet enters a BIER
>   domain at a "Bit-Forwarding Ingress Router" (BFIR), and leaves the
>   BIER domain at one or more "Bit-Forwarding Egress Routers" (BFERs).
>   The BFIR router adds a BIER header to the packet.  The BIER header
>   contains a bit-string in which each bit represents exactly one BFER
>   to forward the packet to.  The set of BFERs to which the multicast
>   packet needs to be forwarded is expressed by setting the bits that
>   correspond to those routers in the BIER header.
>
>   This document describes some of the use-cases for BIER.
>
>
>The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kumar-bier-use-cases/
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