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<div name="messageBodySection">Perhaps a different way of phrasing the question:<br />
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When you indicate you are a participant of an IXP, should entering an IP address be optional?<br />
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Kind regards,<br />
<br />
Job</div>
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On 25 Dec 2016, 12:39 +0100, Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>, wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br />
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Sometimes people want to disclose their presence at an Internet<br />
Exchange, but don't want to disclose their IP address.<br />
<br />
Should PeeringDB allow the IPv4 and IPv6 field to be either of the<br />
following?<br />
<br />
"a valid globally unique IP address"<br />
"" (empty)<br />
<br />
Or should PDB only accept valid globally unique IP addresses as value<br />
for the IP Field?<br />
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It appears we've gone back and forth between allowing empty and not<br />
allowing empty as is visible here: https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/1138<br />
(currently empty is not allowed).<br />
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An argument against 'empty' is that from an automation perspective the<br />
'empty' value is quite useless.<br />
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Based on the outcome of this discussion I'd like to either clean up the<br />
database, or popularise the use of the 'empty ip field' where<br />
applicable.<br />
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Kind regards,<br />
<br />
Job<br /></blockquote>
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