rfc-3849

IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation

G. Huston, A. Lord, P. Smith
date2004-07 streamIETF wgnon working group statusINFORMATIONAL pages4 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3849 doi10.17487/RFC3849
To reduce the likelihood of conflict and confusion when relating documented examples to deployed systems, an IPv6 unicast address prefix is reserved for use in examples in RFCs, books, documentation, and the like. Since site-local and link-local unicast addresses have special meaning in IPv6, these addresses cannot be used in many example situations. The document describes the use of the IPv6 address prefix 2001:DB8::/32 as a reserved prefix for use in documentation. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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