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doc: Add IPv6 metadata address

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The metadata service is going to be accessible over IPv6 too when
the following Neutron feature merges (still in Victoria, I hope):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1460177

However all end-user facing metadata documentation is in Nova,
so unless we want to refactor/move this, let me propose this doc
change here.

Change-Id: I7e67680090da003e01e106be47b7a807164fecb3
Partial-Bug: #1460177
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Bence Romsics
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@@ -25,7 +25,14 @@ the :ref:`cells V2 guide <cells-v2-layout-metadata-api>`.
added in Stein. For versions prior to this release, you should not use the
standalone :program:`nova-api-metadata` application for multiple cells.
Guests access the service at ``169.254.169.254``. The networking service,
Guests access the service at ``169.254.169.254`` or at ``fe80::a9fe:a9fe``.
.. versionchanged:: 22.0.0
Starting with the Victoria release the metadata service is accessible
over IPv6 at the link-local address ``fe80::a9fe:a9fe``.
The networking service,
neutron, is responsible for intercepting these requests and adding HTTP headers
which uniquely identify the source of the request before forwarding it to the
metadata API server. For the Open vSwitch and Linux Bridge backends provided