Net neutrality's unpublicized achilles' heel [Internet services]

Recent comments from telecommunications executives medicating that the might start charging bandwidth-intensive service providers to transport their content have raised objections from those companies, and from law makers. Even in peering situations, the peers have to pay for the capacity to interconnect themselves to various peers at various access points, public or private. There is a cost to achieving full connectivity purely by peering, and some ISPs would mix peering with transit to achieve a reasonable cost profile. Interconnection has a cost and the choice of achieving it is a business decision. However passionate the public discussion might be, bandwidth providers and content providers will be dancing an elaborate minuet to maximize both camps' market opportunities.