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We need to support scoped IPv6 addresses in Inet6Address as defined in draft-ietf-ipngwg-scoping-arch-04.txt. The Windows IPv6 implementation and the Linux IPv6 implementations support it already. It will also be supported by Solaris 10. Scoped IPv6 addresses are used for non-global addresses, and are basically used to specify to which interface a non-global address applies.