The talk of the Atlanta NAP is quite interesting, but nobody has addressed the biggest issue of these "regional" IXPs. Are the big guys going to come? How good is the Atlanta NAP, Mae-LA, Mae-Dallas, etc. if MCI, Sprint, ANS, UUNET, BBNPlanet and PSI don't go there? They account for easily over 75% of the Internet traffic. So far, none of those guys have come to any of the regional IXPs. On that note, I could care less if a plane crashes into Atlanta NAP, it certainly isn't going to affect 99.9% of the world's Internet Traffic. We are wasting energy on discussing these wonderful places to house IXPs. Are private exchanges where it is truly at? UUNET seems to have taken the lead on this form of exchange.. is everyone else following? Does that tie into guaranteed availability? Where does that leave the regional IXP? Are others willing to spend 5k-20k a month at a regional IXP if it only offloads 1k worth of traffic? I know we are not. Sorry to uplevel.. but I think this merits more discussion before the details. Rob