[Bier] FW: I-D Action: draft-kumar-bier-use-cases-01.txt

["Nagendra Kumar Nainar (naikumar)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Below is the updated version of BIER use case draft.

Please read and share your comments.

Regards,
Nagendra



On 1/30/15, 3:40 PM, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>directories.
>
>
>        Title           : BIER Use Cases
>        Authors         : Nagendra Kumar
>                          Rajiv Asati
>                          Mach(Guoyi) Chen
>                          Xiaohu Xu
>                          Andrew Dolganow
>                          Tony Przygienda
>                          Arkadiy Gulko
>	Filename        : draft-kumar-bier-use-cases-01.txt
>	Pages           : 11
>	Date            : 2015-01-30
>
>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/
>
>There's also a htmlized version available at:
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kumar-bier-use-cases-01
>
>A diff from the previous version is available at:
>http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-kumar-bier-use-cases-01
>
>
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