[hiroaki]

Your hunch was right. Google's just tweeted ( http://twitter.com/googlepubpolicy ) that:

"@NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open internet."

[rdtsc]

However they did meet with Verizon behind "closed doors" to agree on a common definition of what "net neutrality" is. Yes, it is not as infamatory as "let's implement something together and screw everyone else".

> We remain committed to an open internet.

Of course they do. No company we'll say - "we want to control the internet and everyone's access to it". They'll say somethig like "we want to expand more options for consumers", "we are helping deliver better content", and of course "we want an open internet". They are the ones being accusses of working out a deal behind consumers' back so their PR department will say something nice to soften the blow.

The only way to figure it out is to wait and see what happens. You'll have to forgive me if I don't take Google's PR department's word for it.