RFC 6676

"Multicast Addresses for Documentation", August 2012

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6676.txt
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Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

S. Venaas
R. Parekh
G. Van de Velde
T. Chown
M. Eubanks

Stream:

IETF

Source:

mboned (ops)

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Abstract

This document discusses which multicast addresses should be used for documentation purposes and reserves multicast addresses for such use. Some multicast addresses are derived from AS numbers or unicast addresses. This document also explains how these can be used for documentation purposes. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.