A new mailing list has been created for MPI 3.0 general discussions ­ over arching issues, as well as the continued effort to improve the existing MPI standard document. The mailing list is called mpi-3, and one can subscribe to this list at http://lists.mpi-forum.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi . Discussions that were taking place in the context of MPI 2.2 that did not make it into 2.2, such as the const discussion, should be moved to this list, as well as new items that come up. Once the list is populated, I will start a discussion of interface changes at MPI 3.0 on this list ­ this is different from the work to add new interface functions. Rich