<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I expanded the help button, which created the confusion as both fields have similar descriptions. The documentation page does say that you think they should be the same, but will allow us to put something different if we choose. I'll create one and play around and see if it makes sense in the overall application to use the provided name or use a friendly name. For example, the reference created for me in 210 N. Tucker Blvd., St. Louis, MO, USA, Suite 515 is RR502.08.RU41. If the application just uses RR502.08.RU41 throughout, that means nothing to me, so I would create a friendly name to go along with it. The patch panel number in 900 Walnut St., St. Louis, MO, USA, Suite 320 is </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">RR109.06.RU28. Nothing there either to actually say where it is.</span></font><br><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Maybe something clearer in the help button? Just a thought, if this proves to be the case:</span></font><br><br><span style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The name / reference for the patch panel, displayed throughout IXP Manager. Using the co-location provider's reference is probably the sanest / least confusing option, but you can use something else.<br></span><br><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The reference the co-location provider has assigned to this patch panel. This is used in LOAs and other places, as appropriate.</span></font><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span name="x"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">-----</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">Mike Hammett</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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Both say to use the reference the colocation<br>>> provider has assigned. Is it intended for them to be the same or should<br>>> they be different? Maybe the colocation reference *IS* what the<br>>> colocation provider assigns, while the patch panel name could be<br>>> something friendly?<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> -----<br>>> Mike Hammett<br>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/><br>>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL><https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb><https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions><https://twitter.com/ICSIL><br>>> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/><br>>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix><https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange><https://twitter.com/mdwestix><br>>> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/><br>>> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> INEX IXP Manager mailing list<br>>> ixpmanager@inex.ie<br>>> https://www.inex.ie/mailman/listinfo/ixpmanager<br>> <br><br>-- <br><br>Kind regards,<br>Barry O'Donovan<br>INEX Operations<br><br>https://www.inex.ie/support/<br>+353 1 531 3339<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>INEX IXP Manager mailing list<br>ixpmanager@inex.ie<br>https://www.inex.ie/mailman/listinfo/ixpmanager<br></div><br></div></body></html>