RFC 8296: Encapsulation for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) in MPLS and Non-MPLS Networks

Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that provides optimal multicast forwarding through a "multicast domain", without requiring…

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Outgoing relationships (10 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 3031: Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding
Normative reference — RFC 5462: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field
Normative reference — RFC 5331: MPLS Upstream Label Assignment and Context-Specific Label Space
Normative reference — RFC 5332: MPLS Multicast Encapsulations
Normative reference — RFC 7120: Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points
Informative reference — RFC 6790: The Use of Entropy Labels in MPLS Forwarding

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9262: Tree Engineering for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER-TE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9624: EVPN Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9790: IANA Registry and Processing Recommendations for the First Nibble Following a Label Stack
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9793: BGP Extensions for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9974: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Requirements for the Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Layer
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9789: MPLS Network Actions (MNAs) Framework
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9625: EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9791: Use Cases for MPLS Network Action Indicators and Ancillary Data
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9856: Multicast Source Redundancy in EVPNs