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boob··on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
> Can someone explain why it's ambiguous?

Because you don’t know how many zeroes are on each side around the 0001 in the middle.

It can be 2000:0000:1:0000:0000:0000:0000:1 or 2000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1:0000:1 etc.