[153097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trading bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kristoff)
Tue May 29 20:46:47 2012
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 19:46:08 -0500
From: John Kristoff <jtk@cymru.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <F06244E4-AA0C-4C28-B915-2A8106164CE7@delong.com>
Cc: "carl gough \[mobsource\]" <carl@mobsource.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:10:04 -0700
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> 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.
I thought those big organizations actually came in later. Here is an
article discussing Band-X, which was one of at least two as I recall
that predated some of some of those more well known, later entrants:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/11772/
John
