#17400; NEWS and ipaddress.rst change

diff --git a/Doc/library/ipaddress.rst b/Doc/library/ipaddress.rst
index 769af72769305b0697b5136710f38a7c690d4963..7336204d6d381b480aa8f5b006303c223baede25 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/ipaddress.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ipaddress.rst
@@ -158,10 +158,13 @@ write code that handles both IP versions correctly.
       ``True`` if the address is reserved for multicast use.  See
       :RFC:`3171` (for IPv4) or :RFC:`2373` (for IPv6).
 
-   .. attribute:: is_private
+   .. attribute:: is_global
 
       ``True`` if the address is allocated for private networks.  See
-      :RFC:`1918` (for IPv4) or :RFC:`4193` (for IPv6).
+      iana-ipv4-special-registry (for IPv4) or iana-ipv6-special-registry
+      (for IPv6).
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.4
 
    .. attribute:: is_unspecified
 

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f60bbd181d5c6bb4065f3c6865a15102694c0ccf..84f6e2c9bbb6f855aaed9f329f01cbd5888287f0 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #17400: ipaddress should make it easy to identify rfc6598 addresses.
+
 - Load SSL's error strings in hashlib.
 
 - Issue #18527: Upgrade internal copy of zlib to 1.2.8.