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. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
