Today the peering agreements are made so that ISPs get paid for whatever traffic they pass through. They have no financial motivation to change anything. And as the Internet is decentralized you cannot order them to do anything. So everyone has to protect from DDOS by themselves.
> Today the peering agreements are made so that ISP's get paid for whatever traffic they pass through. They have no financial motivation to change anything.
That seems believable.
> And as the Internet is decentralized you cannot order them to do anything.
...that doesn't. Being decentralized doesn't render them immune to regulation. If all major networks responsible for large scale peering were required not to pass on a certain type of traffic, it would be quite difficult to route around that. Yes, if only some did, this would be routed around.
