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5.11.5 Address Type Identification
e type of an IPv6 address is identified by the high-order bits of the address, as
follows:
Address type Binary prefix IPv6 notation Section
------------ ------------- ------------- -------
Unspecified 00...0 (128 bits) ::/128 5.12.5.2
Loopback 00...1 (128 bits) ::1/128 5.12.5.3
Multicast 11111111 FF00::/8 5.12.7
Link-local unicast 1111111010 FE80::/10 5.12.5.6
Site-local unicast 1111111011 FEC0::/10 5.12.5.6
Global unicast (everything else)
Anycast addresses are taken from the unicast address spaces (of any scope) and are
not syntactically distinguishable from unicast addresses.
e general format of global unicast addresses is described in Section 5.11.6.4.
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