proving once again that "peering ratios" only matter if the other guy's customers can live without your "assymetric" content, here are two articles i saw today via slashdot. what's interesting to me is whether bellsouth will be sued some time later by some other content provider for de-peering them without also having applied the same rules to google. note, this isn't a bellsouth-specific rant, they just happen to be mentioned in today's story. -------- http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/google_we_wont.html Google: We Won't Pay Broadband Cyberextortion January 18, 2006 BellSouth and Verizon have been trying to force big Web sites to pay extortion-type fees if the sites want adequate bandwidth, with Google a prime target. But Google has news for them: It won't pay. [...] -------- http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/bellsouth_cyber.html BellSouth: Cyberextortion Pays Off January 17, 2006 BellSouth's new business model, a slightly more polite form of the kind of extortion practiced by Tony Soprano, is starting to pay off. The company says it is in negotiations with several Web sites willing to pay extra fees to BellSouth for more bandwidth than it provides to other sites. [...] --------