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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