RFC 5736: IANA IPv4 Special Purpose Address Registry
This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 6890.
Current document in this lineage: RFC 6890 — Special-Purpose IP Address Registries
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This is a direction to IANA concerning the creation and management of the IANA IPv4 Special Purpose Address Registry. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC5736
- Published
- January 2010
- Authors
- G. Huston; M. Cotton; L. Vegoda
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 6
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 6890
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 6 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
Read the full history of Special-Purpose IP Address Registries →
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