What is the role of the Next Header field in IPv6?

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The 8-bit Next Header field specifies the header type of the header immediately following the IPv6 header -specifically, extension headers -and uses the same values as the IPv4 Protocol field (see RFC 3232, which made RFC 1700 obsolete).
The Next Header field is a significant addition to the IPv6 header format. When an IPv6 packet uses extension headers, this field points to the first extension header. That extension header contains within its own Next Header field the identifier for the following extension header, and so on to the final extension header, which then contains a reference to the encapsulated higher-level protocol.

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