[133593] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: peering, derivatives, and big brother
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Mon Dec 13 15:28:53 2010
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:28:45 -0800
In-Reply-To: <1292270846.13327.234.camel@pc2.unassigned-domain>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Laurent GUERBY" <laurent@guerby.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The electricity spot market is close to your definition of
> "perishable":
>=20
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market
>=20
> It has a derivative market, google for "electricity derivatives" will
> give you some papers and models.
>=20
> I'm pretty sure electricity and bandwidth share some patterns.
>=20
> Now who wants to be the Enron of the bandwidth market? :)
Enron actually WAS dealing in bandwidth at one point:
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/253861/Enron-Opens-Bandwidth
-Commodity-Trading-Service.htm
