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