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Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
> 
> Dear Hank,
> 
> yes, we currently have a longer than usual (and definitely longer
> than desirable) delay in responding to member's requests for IP
> addresses and AS numbers.

Is there any way to quantify the delays being experianced? Perhaps
an average time to initial hostmaster reply to a request or something
that could be automatically mailed to requestees along with perhaps
that requests postition in the queue.

Just so that people get an idea of how long the queue is and when to
expect a reply.

Then the discussion here could be moved from "there is a delay how long
is it" to something else :)

Thanks,
Leigh Porter
INS