Current wait times

Dear LIRs,

Be assured that we take this matter very seriously and we are
doing all we can to improve the situation.

All suggestions made by the "17th May Task Force" and agreed by
the LIR WG were implemented (since May 2001) and resulted in a
significantly lower response time as you can see on the yearly
Hostmaster Waitqueue graph (last graph on the following page):

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/registration/rttqueue/rttwaitqueue.html

Due to market developments (i.e. increase of mergers, take overs,
closures) and unforeseen issues with the implementation of the new
"Minimum Allocation Criteria" policy in November 2001 we experienced
an unexpected high work load since mid January 2002 (as described in
our previous mail). These factors appeared unfortunately at the same
time.

We are currently preparing a detailed report for you to be presented
at the RIPE 42 Meeting. However, we are going to send a preliminary
summary early next week to this list.

Kind Regards,

Mirjam Kuehne
External Relations
RIPE NCC