RFC 9974 on Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Requirements for the Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Layer
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Subject: RFC 9974 on Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Requirements for the Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Layer
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RFC 9974
Title: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Requirements
for the Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Layer
Author: G. Mirsky, Ed.,
N. Kumar,
M. Chen,
S. Pallagatti, Ed.
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: June 2026
Mailbox: gregimirsky@gmail.com,
nagendrakumar.nainar@gmail.com,
mach.chen@huawei.com,
santosh.pallagatti@gmail.com
Pages: 9
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-bier-oam-requirements-21
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9974
DOI: 10.17487/RFC9974
This document specifies a list of functional requirements for
Operations, Administration, and Maintenance mechanisms, protocols,
and tools that support operations in the Bit Index Explicit
Replication layer of a network.
This document is a product of the Bit Indexed Explicit Replication Working Group of the IETF.
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