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Ohh, your Example Documentation was sooo close to being RFC-compliant! Except for those unnecessary abbreviations of CIDR notation, and...

You can use 203.0.113.0/24 in your examples because it is specifically reserved for this purpose by IETF/IANA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses#IPv4

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I usually try to write comments with proper notation and proper example values, but if — like in this instance — I'm interrupted IRL and lose my draft, I'll focus on getting my idea across at all rather than writing the perfect comment. Even if that leads to excessive abbreviations, slightly off example values, inconsistency between you/I/passive voice or past/present/future tense.

In this case the comment you see is the third attempt, ultimately written on a phone (urgh), but I hope the idea came across nonetheless.

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