Yes, according to the RFC index it is a Proposed Standard.

You can always check this at the RFC Editor site, e.g. from
the search page: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html

Whether people are following the standard is of course another
question entirely.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 2012-02-28 03:09, Karl Auer wrote:
> This is a silly question I know but I have to ask - is RFC 5952 "A
> Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation" a standard that
> people are expected to follow?
> 
> This from the abstract:
> 
>   "It is expected that the canonical format
>    will be followed by humans and systems when representing IPv6
>    addresses as text, but all implementations must accept and be able to
>    handle any legitimate RFC 4291 format."
> 
> They are pretty much common sense (except for 4.2.2), and probably
> represent common practice anyway, but I'd still like to know whether
> people are consciously following these guidelines.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> 
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