As a follow-up to the IX Operator Panel today, a Web site and mailing list have been set up to focus and expand the interests of regional exchange points. The REP Forum is intended for anyone who is interested in discussion and development of regional exchanges. This includes operators, participants and anyone interested in exploring or creating a regional exchange point. The REP Forum hopes to collect and share the knowledge and experience that has been developed by people who have built regional exchanges. The mailing list will be used to discuss and expand that knowledge-base and share ideas between REP projects. The REP Forum will provide information to create a regional exchange, or to make your current REP project more valuable (and hopefully more successful). This will initially focus on North American regional exchanges, though if there is interest from other areas of the world we will find a way accomodate those. The REP Forum web site is at http://www.rep.net . The mailing list is available by sending "subscribe" to forum-request@lists.rep.net. If you know of regional exchang operators that might not subscribe to the NANOG mailing list, please forward this message to them, or send me their contact information. Thanks. Pete.