I think that the rooms on the PAW Network should have their own forum. It is nice to have a place to go for specific room information. PAW network rooms are offering deals to PAW that allows PAW to offer above industry standard rates to affiliates on it's network.
Rooms not on the network can share a forum with other non network rooms or, you can offer them an opportunity to purchase their own forum if they so choose. This keeps the exposure to those who pay for it, in one way or another, to the PAW community. Plus it keeps the quality of poker rooms with private forums at a certain level here at PAW (ie, not every startup poker site and their brothers getting a private forum here) and it would probably clear up some of the non active forums.
Anyway, whatever you guys do, just keep providing the best place for poker affiliates to exchange ideas and do business online
. My .02