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Updates to the Special-Purpose IP Address Registries
draft-bchv-rfc6890bis-07

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Authors Ron Bonica , Michelle Cotton , Brian Haberman , Leo Vegoda
Last updated 2018-12-20 (Latest revision 2017-05-02)
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draft-bchv-rfc6890bis-07
Network Working Group                                          R. Bonica
Internet-Draft                                          Juniper Networks
Updates: 6890 (if approved)                                    M. Cotton
Intended status: Best Current Practice                             ICANN
Expires: November 3, 2017                                    B. Haberman
                                                Johns Hopkins University
                                                               L. Vegoda
                                                                   ICANN
                                                             May 2, 2017

            Updates to Special-Purpose IP Address Registries
                        draft-bchv-rfc6890bis-07

Abstract

   This memo updates the IANA IPv4 and IPv6 Special-Purpose Address
   Registries to address issues raised by the definition of a "global"
   prefix.  It also corrects several errors in registry entries to
   ensure the integrity of the IANA Special-Purpose Address Registries.

   This memo updates RFC 6890.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Definition of Global  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.2.  Updates to the IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry  . .   3
     2.3.  Updates to the IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registry  . .   3
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     5.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     5.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5

1.  Introduction

   In order to support new protocols and practices, the IETF
   occasionally reserves an address block for a special purpose.  For
   example, [RFC1122] reserves an IPv4 address block (0.0.0.0/8) to
   represent the local (i.e., "this") network.  Likewise, [RFC4291]
   reserves an IPv6 address block (fe80::/10) to represent link-scoped
   unicast addresses.

   Several issues have been raised with the documentation of some of the
   special-purpose address blocks in [RFC6890].  Specifically, the
   definition of "global" provided in [RFC6890] was misleading as it
   slightly differed from the generally accepted definition of "global
   scope" (i.e., the ability to forward beyond the boundaries of an
   administrative domain, described as "global unicast" in the IPv6
   addressing architecture [RFC4291]).

   This memo updates the definition of "global" from [RFC6890] for the
   IPv4 and IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registries, augments the fields
   contained within the registries in order to address the confusion
   raised by the definition of "global", and corrects some errors in
   some of the entries in the Special-Purpose Address Registries.

   This memo updates [RFC6890].

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2.  IANA Considerations

2.1.  Definition of Global

   [RFC6890] defined the term "global" without taking into consideration
   the multiple uses of the term.  Specifically, IP addresses can be
   global in terms of allocation scope as well as global in terms of
   routing/reachability.  To address this ambiguity, the use of the term
   "global" defined in [RFC6890] is replaced with "globally reachable".
   The following definition replaces the definiton of "global" in the
   IANA Special-Purpose Address Registries:

   o  Globally Reachable - A boolean value indicating whether an IP
      datagram whose destination address is drawn from the allocated
      special-purpose address block is forwardable beyond a specified
      administrative domain.

   The same relationship between the value of "Destination" and the
   values of "Forwardable" and "Global" described in [RFC6890] holds for
   "Globally Reachable".  If the value of "Destination" is FALSE, the
   values of "Forwardable" and "Globally Reachable" must also be FALSE.

   The "Global" column in the IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry
   (https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry) and the
   IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registry
   (https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv6-special-registry) is
   renamed to "Globally Reachable".

2.2.  Updates to the IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry

   o  Limited Broadcast prefix (255.255.255.255/32) - The Reserved-by-
      Protocol value is changed from False to True.  This change is made
      to align the registry with reservation of the limited broadcast
      address with Section 7 of [RFC0919].

2.3.  Updates to the IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registry

   The following changes to the IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registry
   involves the insertion of two new footnotes.  These changes require
   the footnotes to be re-numbered.

   o  TEREDO prefix (2001::/32) - The Globally Reachable value is
      changed from False to "N/A [2]".  The [2] footnote states:

      *  See Section 5 of [RFC4380] for details.

   o  EID Space for LISP (2001:5::/32) - All footnotes are incremented
      by 1.

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   o  6to4 (2002::/16) - All footnotes are incremented by 1.

   o  Unique-Local (fc00::/7) - The Globally Reachable value is changed
      from False to "False [7]".  The [7] footnote states:

      *  See [RFC4193] for more details on the routability of Unique-
         Local addresses.  The Unique-Local prefix is drawn from the
         IPv6 Global Unicast Address range, but is specified as not
         globally routed.

3.  Security Considerations

   This document does not raise any security issues beyond those
   discussed in [RFC6890].

4.  Acknowledgements

   Brian Carpenter and C.M.  Heard provided useful comments on initial
   versions of this document.  Daniel Migault provided an in-depth
   review that helped strengthen the text within the document.

5.  References

5.1.  Normative References

   [RFC6890]  Cotton, M., Vegoda, L., Bonica, R., Ed., and B. Haberman,
              "Special-Purpose IP Address Registries", BCP 153,
              RFC 6890, DOI 10.17487/RFC6890, April 2013,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6890>.

5.2.  Informative References

   [RFC0919]  Mogul, J., "Broadcasting Internet Datagrams", STD 5,
              RFC 919, DOI 10.17487/RFC0919, October 1984,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc919>.

   [RFC1122]  Braden, R., Ed., "Requirements for Internet Hosts -
              Communication Layers", STD 3, RFC 1122,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC1122, October 1989,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1122>.

   [RFC4193]  Hinden, R. and B. Haberman, "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast
              Addresses", RFC 4193, DOI 10.17487/RFC4193, October 2005,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4193>.

   [RFC4291]  Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
              Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February
              2006, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4291>.

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   [RFC4380]  Huitema, C., "Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through
              Network Address Translations (NATs)", RFC 4380,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4380, February 2006,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4380>.

Authors' Addresses

   Ronald Bonica
   Juniper Networks

   Email: rbonica@juniper.net

   Michelle Cotton
   ICANN

   Email: michelle.cotton@icann.org

   Brian Haberman
   Johns Hopkins University

   Email: brian@innovationslab.net

   Leo Vegoda
   ICANN

   Email: leo.vegoda@icann.org

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