AT&T and VZ can't de-peer for another 17 months, so we have that long before it becomes imminent.
Where did the 17 month timeframe come from? AFAIK, without Net Neutrality legislation, there is nothing stopping the big guys from pulling the rug out from under the rest of us TODAY. If you are suggesting that they MUST peer because of a RFC or contract, you are mistaken. RFC's have no binding authority at law and contracts can and often are breached if the result of the breach will bring the breaching party a windfall. If there is one thing that was made abundently clear in Contracts class it is that there are no punitive damages in contracts.... sometimes it just makes sense to breach.
If AT&T can make billions in tiered-access charges by de-peering with the rest of the globe they will and they will do it as soon as they feel the time is right. No RFC and no contract will limit them. Until there is a LAW with real teeth prohibiting de-peering they can do whatever they want. (Real teeth = more than a grant to the FCC to investigate potential abuse. Oversight committees are useless without standards to uphold IMHO.)
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