Re: [Bier] RFC 8279 on Multicast Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER))

Indeed a truly multi-vendor and open achievement. Congrats to all!

Dino

> On Nov 21, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> 
> If you wonder why there is no big hurray !!!!!!,
> congratulations for the RFC here on the mailing list,
> here are my top guesses:
> 
> a) We already had it in Singapore in the BIER WG meeting.
> c) We're all still in jet lag koma after flying back from Singapore
> b) We're all getting ready for thanksgiving
> 
> Nevertheless: hurray!!!!!
> 
> Happy thanksgiving (applicable to U.S. residents)
>  Toerless
> 
> In-Reply-To: <20171120204027.E4CECB81B04@rfc-editor.org>
> 
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:40:27PM -0800, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
>> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>> 
>> 
>>        RFC 8279
>> 
>>        Title:      Multicast Using Bit Index Explicit 
>>                    Replication (BIER) 
>>        Author:     I. Wijnands, Ed.,
>>                    E. Rosen, Ed.,
>>                    A. Dolganow,
>>                    T. Przygienda,
>>                    S. Aldrin
>>        Status:     Experimental
>>        Stream:     IETF
>>        Date:       November 2017
>>        Mailbox:    ice@cisco.com,
>>                    erosen@juniper.net,
>>                    andrew.dolganow@nokia.com,
>>                    prz@juniper.net,
>>                    aldrin.ietf@gmail.com
>>        Pages:      43
>>        Characters: 97283
>>        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
>> 
>>        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-bier-architecture-08.txt
>> 
>>        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8279
>> 
>>        DOI:        10.17487/RFC8279
>> 
>> This document specifies a new architecture for the forwarding of
>> multicast data packets.  It provides optimal forwarding of multicast
>> packets through a "multicast domain".  However, it does not require a
>> protocol for explicitly building multicast distribution trees, nor
>> does it require intermediate nodes to maintain any per-flow state.
>> This architecture is known as "Bit Index Explicit Replication"
>> (BIER).  When a multicast data packet enters the domain, the ingress
>> router determines the set of egress routers to which the packet needs
>> to be sent.  The ingress router then encapsulates the packet in a
>> BIER header.  The BIER header contains a bit string in which each bit
>> represents exactly one egress router in the domain; to forward the
>> packet to a given set of egress routers, the bits corresponding to
>> those routers are set in the BIER header.  The procedures for
>> forwarding a packet based on its BIER header are specified in this
>> document.  Elimination of the per-flow state and the explicit
>> tree-building protocols results in a considerable simplification.
>> 
>> This document is a product of the Bit Indexed Explicit Replication Working Group of the IETF.
>> 
>> 
>> EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
>> Internet community.  It does not specify an Internet standard of any
>> kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
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