Updates to the Special-Purpose IP Address Registries
RFC 8190
| Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(June 2017; No errata)
Updates RFC 6890
Was draft-bchv-rfc6890bis (individual in int area)
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| Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
| Document shepherd | Daniel Migault | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2017-02-10) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 8190 (Best Current Practice) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Suresh Krishnan | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Bonica
Request for Comments: 8190 Juniper Networks
BCP: 153 M. Cotton
Updates: 6890 PTI
Category: Best Current Practice B. Haberman
ISSN: 2070-1721 Johns Hopkins University
L. Vegoda
ICANN
June 2017
Updates to the Special-Purpose IP Address Registries
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.
Status of This Memo
This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8190.
Bonica, et al. Best Current Practice [Page 1]
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Definition of Globally Reachable . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Updates to the IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry . . 4
2.3. Updates to the IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registry . . 4
3. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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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) for link-local 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].
2. IANA Considerations
2.1. Definition of Globally Reachable
[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
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