The Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (bier) Working Group will hold a multi-day interim meeting. Session 1: 2016-09-27 10:00 to 17:00 US/Pacific Session 2: 2016-09-28 10:00 to 17:00 US/Pacific Session 3: 2016-09-29 10:00 to 13:00 US/Pacific Meeting Location: Milpitas, CA, US Agenda: Agenda will be distributed on the BIER WG mailing list. Information about remote participation: There will be accommodations for remote participation. The BIER working group asked for volunteers to form a design team focused on identifying and specifying an alternative encapsulation of BIER packets. This design team will be meeting in person: Cisco Systems 115 N McCarthy Blvd Milpitas, CA 95035 The location has capacity for those volunteers who will be meeting in person. There will be accommodations for remote participation as well. The list of Design Team volunteers is as follows: gjshep@gmail.com tonysietf@gmail.com naikumar@cisco.com zzhang@juniper.net pierre.pfister@darou.fr farinacci@gmail.com zhang.zheng@zte.com.cn stig@venaas.com ldeghein@cisco.com wang.cui1@zte.com.cn nranns@cisco.com masivaku@cisco.com andrew.dolganow@nokia.com gregory.mirsky@ericsson.com rashid.sangi@huawei.com jefftant.ietf@gmail.com rajiva@cisco.com okomolaf@brocade.com xuxiaohu@huawei.com ice@cisco.com jefftant.ietf@gmail.com rashid.sangi@huawei.com Thank you, Chairs
