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At 13:33 +0100 5/9/00, Leigh Porter wrote:
>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.

Being worked on as we "speak".

>
>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 :)

I agree. Currently we have about 8 business days of wait for first contact.

Joao Damas
RIPE NCC

>Thanks,
>Leigh Porter
>INS