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> Where are the other prefix segments?

Currently not needed.

The IETF/IANA folks were a bit cautious, so only 2000::/3 is officially designated to be assigned. If, a few years down the road, they find out that a mistake was someone made in address allocations, they can then 'start over' from the lessons learned, and start assigning things from 4000::/3.

If they made a mistake again, they can start over again with 6000::/3. And then 8000::/3, a000::/3, and c000::/3.

* https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space/ipv6-add...

So that's why all global unicast addresses start with 2: they're to be 'conservative' in what is usable so that if there are problems there is room for corrections in the coming years/decades/centuries.

We don't want to have to go through another IP protocol transition.



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