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add mention about IPv6 former site-local address block.
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Doc/library/ipaddress.rst

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``True`` if the address is noted as reserved by the IETF.
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For IPv4, this is only ``240.0.0.0/4``, the ``Reserved`` address block.
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For IPv6, this is all addresses `allocated <iana-ipv6-address-space_>`__ as
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``Reserved by IETF`` for future use.
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``Reserved by IETF`` for future use, except ``fec0::/10`` a former Site-Local scoped
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address prefix (see :attr:`~IPv6Address.is_site_local`).
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Note: ``is_reserved`` is not related to the IPv4 address block value of the
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``Reserved-by-Protocol`` column in iana-ipv4-special-registry_.

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