<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>It should be required. Thanks!<br><br>Cheers! -<a href="mailto:renster@apple.com">renster@apple.com</a><div><br><div>*NOTE* <a href="mailto:peering-NOC@group.apple.com">peering-NOC@group.apple.com</a> often responds to pending activations faster than I do! <span style="font-size: 13pt;">Sent from my iPhone 6 Plus</span></div></div></div><div><br>On Dec 25, 2016, at 6:39 AM, Job Snijders <<a href="mailto:job@instituut.net">job@instituut.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi all,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Sometimes people want to disclose their presence at an Internet</span><br><span>Exchange, but don't want to disclose their IP address.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Should PeeringDB allow the IPv4 and IPv6 field to be either of the</span><br><span>following?</span><br><span></span><br><span> "a valid globally unique IP address"</span><br><span> "" (empty)</span><br><span></span><br><span>Or should PDB only accept valid globally unique IP addresses as value</span><br><span>for the IP Field?</span><br><span></span><br><span>It appears we've gone back and forth between allowing empty and not</span><br><span>allowing empty as is visible here: <a href="https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/1138">https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/1138</a></span><br><span>(currently empty is not allowed).</span><br><span></span><br><span>An argument against 'empty' is that from an automation perspective the</span><br><span>'empty' value is quite useless.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Based on the outcome of this discussion I'd like to either clean up the</span><br><span>database, or popularise the use of the 'empty ip field' where</span><br><span>applicable.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Kind regards,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Job</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Pdb-tech mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Pdb-tech@lists.peeringdb.com">Pdb-tech@lists.peeringdb.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.peeringdb.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdb-tech">http://lists.peeringdb.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdb-tech</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>