David Farmer wrote: > Rather than updating the reference from RFC3330 to > RFC6890, by the way, RFC6890 itself has been updated > by RFC8190. Further, numerous RFCs have updated the > registry since its creation by RFC5736 and its expansion > by RFC6890. Therefore, I think it would be better to > directly reference the "IANA IPv4 Special-Purpose > Address Registry" at its permanent URL > (https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry ), > instead of referencing the RFC that created the registry.
This is sound. When we wrote RFC 6890 we intended to make the registry a stable and authoritative source, rather than have to update whatever the RFC was at the time that an assignment changed or a new assignment was made. Referencing the registry instead of an RFC makes sense. Kind regards, Leo Vegoda
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