IANA IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registry

   Created
           2006-01-10

   Last Updated
           2013-05-01

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     * IANA IPv6 Special Purpose Address Registry

IANA IPv6 Special Purpose Address Registry

   Registration Procedure(s)

 IETF Review

   Reference
           [RFC4773][RFC6890]

   Note

 Address prefixes listed in the Special Purpose Address Registry are
 not guaranteed routability in any particular local or global context.

   Address Block           Name              RFC    Allocation Date Termination Date  Source  Destination Forwardable  Global  Reserved-by-Protocol
   ::1/128       Loopback Address         [RFC4291] February 2006   N/A              False    False       False       False    True
   ::/128        Unspecified Address      [RFC4291] February 2006   N/A              True     False       False       False    True
   ::ffff:0:0/96 IPv4-mapped Address      [RFC4291] February 2006   N/A              False    False       False       False    True
   64:ff9b::/96  IPv4-IPv6 Translat.      [RFC6052] October 2010    N/A              True     True        True        True     False
   100::/64      Discard-Only Address     [RFC6666] June 2012       N/A              True     True        True        False    False
                 Block
   2001::/23     IETF Protocol            [RFC2928] September 2000  N/A              False[1] False[1]    False[1]    False[1] False
                 Assignments
   2001::/32     TEREDO                   [RFC4380] January 2006    N/A              True     True        True        False    False
   2001:2::/48   Benchmarking             [RFC5180] April 2008      N/A              True     True        True        False    False
   2001:db8::/32 Documentation            [RFC3849] July 2004       N/A              False    False       False       False    False
   2001:10::/28  ORCHID                   [RFC4843] March 2007      March 2014       False    False       False       False    False
   2002::/16[2]  6to4                     [RFC3056] February 2001   N/A              True     True        True        N/A[2]   False
   fc00::/7      Unique-Local             [RFC4193] October 2005    N/A              True     True        True        False    False
   fe80::/10     Linked-Scoped Unicast    [RFC4291] February 2006   N/A              True     True        False       False    True

                                                                      Footnotes

   [1] Unless allowed by a more specific allocation.
   [2] See [RFC3056] for details.