Why is there a percent sign '%' in the IPv6 address?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/99746/wh...

Question links:
[MSDN]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

Accepted answer links:
[Microsoft has published this article describing IPv6 addressing]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
[link-local address]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_...
[RFC 4007]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4007

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