The IESG has received a request from an individual participant to make the following status changes: - RFC8279 from Experimental to Proposed Standard (Multicast Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)) - RFC8296 from Experimental to Proposed Standard (Encapsulation for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) in MPLS and Non-MPLS Networks) The supporting document for this request can be found here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-bier-core-to-proposed-standard/ The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2018-03-08. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. The affected documents can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8279/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8296/ IESG discussion of this request can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-bier-core-to-proposed-standard/ballot/