OK, so I'll buy a 10G port to another random ISP. And they'll go to the ICX and say "hey Verizon, hit me up with the 10G port". Oh wait, it doesn't work like that. It works with peering arrangements, hmm.
Why should netflix have to pay for last mile when they already pay their backbone provider, who may own most of the wire? We can come up with any scenario or one off situation but still the problem remains.
Should net neutrality go away? And is it fair what Verizon and others are demanding from Netflix/Youtube... Also, who should foot the bill, the backbone providers, the content providers or the last mile providers.
You talk of peering arguments yet you dont seem to back them. If netflix is a level 3 customer and level 3 has a peering argument with Verizon, then whats the problem?
L3's peering contract with Verizon requires roughly equal traffic. Maybe that's dumb, shouldn't be the case, unfair to Verizon customers, etc., but that's literally the issue at the moment.
L3 did the exact same thing to Cogent before, for the same reasons.
