RFC 3849: IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation

To reduce the likelihood of conflict and confusion when relating documented examples to deployed systems, an IPv6 unicast address prefix is reserved for use…

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Outgoing relationships (2 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses

Incoming relationships (11 related RFCs)

Updated by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 9637: Expanding the IPv6 Documentation Space
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4085: Embedding Globally-Routable Internet Addresses Considered Harmful
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6890: Special-Purpose IP Address Registries
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5737: IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7401: Host Identity Protocol Version 2 (HIPv2)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5398: Autonomous System (AS) Number Reservation for Documentation Use
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9176: Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Resource Directory
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6666: A Discard Prefix for IPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9240: An Extension for Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO): Entity Property Maps
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9907: Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data Models
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6676: Multicast Addresses for Documentation