Re: REP How-to's

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:

> Has anyone found or put together anything along the lines of
> a "Starting an Exchange in your Community" How-to or FAQ?
> Any references to material you think apply to the topic?
>
> I'm interested in the technical, business, financial and
> social/political/psychological aspects of starting an
> exchange. Any suggestions?

There's a dearth of information out there on precisely how to do any of
this.  A lot of the research I did included scanning old NSFNet reports,
NANOG archives, NANOG slide presentation scattered here and there,
Googling on every IX web page I could, etc. etc.  After all of that, I got
much of the technical side, a bit of the business side, and some of the
social/political/psychological aspects of starting an IX.

Of course, each situation is different and YMMV.  We're still grappling
with a few minor things at OttIX. :-)

wfms