rfc-5771

IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments

M. Cotton, L. Vegoda, D. Meyer

date2010-03 streamIETF areaops wgmboned statusBEST CURRENT PRACTICE pages11 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5771 doi10.17487/RFC5771 errataview

This document provides guidance for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) in assigning IPv4 multicast addresses. It obsoletes RFC 3171 and RFC 3138 and updates RFC 2780. This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

obsoletes

rfc-3138 — Extended Assignments in 233/8
rfc-3171 — IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments

updates

rfc-2780 — IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers

also

bcp-51