[153091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trading bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Watson)
Tue May 29 18:55:08 2012
From: Brett Watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
In-Reply-To: <F06244E4-AA0C-4C28-B915-2A8106164CE7@delong.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 15:54:19 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 29, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> IIRC, the concept was first introduced by MCI and Enron to great =
fanfare
> and subsequent graphic demonstrations of the destructive power of
> unregulated markets controlled by people of limited moral fortitude.
Not ALL of us were of limited moral fortitude! :) I still think the =
concept was fundamentally sound, and I certainly meant well, but I was =
in a position of very little power so what I said generally didn't carry =
a lot of weight in that environment.
-b=
