> Will the members of the oligopoly lose interest in maintaining > decent peering, simply saying "you could reach us fine if you > bought transit from us"?
There's an FCC report on "The Digital Handshake: Connecting Internet Backbones" at http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/OPP/working_papers/oppwp32.pdf that talks a bit about this very issue... -- Jen
