[PDB Tech] allow empty IP field or not?

[Eric Loos]

Hi Matt,

I agree, so that is why I don’t believe that keeping a field empty to signal other intent, i.e. ‘I am not ready to peer’ or ‘I do not want to peer’ is not a valid use case and therefore an empty field does not fit with a database meant for  valid data. So on what side of the fence are you? Allow empty yes or no and what do you see as implications?
> On 28 Dec 2016, at 19:30, Matt Griswold <grizz at 20c.com> wrote:
> 
> * Eric Loos <eric at ipergy.net> [161228 19:08 +0100]:
>> I doubt we want people to just blindly have a script configure a
>> session just because someone, somewhere has added an IP address on an
>> exchange, there should be another step, right?
> 
> We shouldn't care what they do with it and it's well beyond scope of a
> database. We care that the data is valid and thus, hopefully, useful.