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Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-4@u-1.phicoh.com> Fri, 09 June 2017 12:55 UTC

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> I think the term manual configuration for non-SLAAC cases is a
> little misleading. Many deployments, be they server deployments,
> or point-to-point link configurations, are likely to be increasingly
> automatically provisioned in some way; then there is no manual
> configuration per se.

Historically, in a networking context, this is called manual or static
configuration.

I'm not aware of a any term that is in wide spread use that specifically
refers to the case where host addresses are set by provisioning software.

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