http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29WIRE-PENT.html explains it all. Interestingly enough this stuff was presented by the program lead, Michael Foster, to a group of people here yesterday and it is a very cool concept. He stressed multiple times that this wasnt betting and unfortunately the media gave it a betting spin anyway. -mtl -------------------------------------------------- Michael Lapinski Computer Scientist GE Research "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943 ->-----Original Message----- ->From: Michael Hallgren [mailto:m.hallgren@free.fr] ->Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:19 PM ->To: nanog@merit.edu ->Subject: OT,.. -> -> -> ->.. but anyway: someone informed on planned role of ->policyanalysismarket.org ? -> ->Out of curiosity, -> ->mh ->