On 19.11.2009 13:09 Bernd SPIESS wrote
However, I am quite sure that even bureaucrat companies can do it quicker than years if their peering policy is not too weird (ok I'm exlcuding a lot of 4 digit ASses :)
i can assure you, you are wrong :-) at vienna vix it takes about one year to have an answer from everbody. it took about 2 years at milano and about 15 rounds of asking to have a yes+session or no from everyone de-cix seems to be the worst - after more than one year we still miss answers from about 80 carriers and are in the 10´th round of asking :-)
don't you think that this is somewhat related to the number of members connected to an exchange? Hence time/#members would be more interesting.
Imho this also is a strong argument for using routeservers. You will be up to speed immediately! And then there are members you never ever will get peering with!
Arnold