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<reference anchor='RFC2526'>

<front>
<title>Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses</title>
<author initials='D.' surname='Johnson' fullname='David B. Johnson'>
<organization>Carnegie Mellon University</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>Computer Science Department</street>
<street>5000 Forbes Avenue</street>
<city>Pittsburgh</city>
<region>PA</region>
<code>15213-3891</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 412 268 7399</phone>
<facsimile>+1 412 268 5576</facsimile>
<email>dbj@cs.cmu.edu</email></address></author>
<author initials='S.' surname='Deering' fullname='Stephen E. Deering'>
<organization>Cisco Systems, Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>170 West Tasman Drive</street>
<city>San Jose</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>95134-1706</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 408 527 8213</phone>
<facsimile>+1 408 527 8254</facsimile>
<email>deering@cisco.com</email></address></author>
<date month='March' year='1999' />
<abstract>
<t>The IP Version 6 addressing architecture defines an 'anycast' address as an IPv6 address that is assigned to one or more network interfaces (typically belonging to different nodes), with the property that a packet sent to an anycast address is routed to the 'nearest' interface having that address, according to the routing protocols' measure of distance. This document defines a set of reserved anycast addresses within each subnet prefix, and lists the initial allocation of these reserved subnet anycast addresses.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2526' />
</reference>
