Old news but to update this subject.....
Iran was live testing their IOB trading program when numerous undersea cables were cut, and overnight all of the Middle East's internet went silent for days. This tried to exemplify that the platforms are built on an unreliable system of clout. Expected 2006, but due to setbacks, it was released February 2008 incomplete with currently no oil trading.
I believe this outage was an obvious precursor by the U.S. toward Iran. The truth is the petro-dollar is a strong <b>weapon</b> and we should have control over <i>our</i> fragile markets (secret internet missions & oil wars enter here unfortunately).
P.S. previous posts are from 2005 I applaud their vision!