[133597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peering, derivatives, and big brother
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorn Hetzel)
Mon Dec 13 16:28:25 2010
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14CEDB@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:28:13 -0500
From: Dorn Hetzel <dhetzel@gmail.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yeah, well, sorta. sorta not so much :)
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
> > The electricity spot market is close to your definition of
> > "perishable":
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market
> >
> > It has a derivative market, google for "electricity derivatives" will
> > give you some papers and models.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure electricity and bandwidth share some patterns.
> >
> > Now who wants to be the Enron of the bandwidth market? :)
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> Enron actually WAS dealing in bandwidth at one point:
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> http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/253861/Enron-Opens-Bandwidth
> -Commodity-Trading-Service.htm
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