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Hans Petter,

Thank you for your constructive ideas.

As announced earlier, we are busy re-writing the IP address policy
document.  The outcome of this should be a more clear and concise 
documentation of address policies. 

In parallel we hope that the simplification of the policies will lead to 
more simple procedures regarding the evaluation of address requests.

Review work on the new IPv4 policy document has been done together
with the RIPE community on <ripe185bis at ripe.net>. Tomorrow the final
draft will be submitted to the LIR WG mailing list for comment.

Regards,

Mirjam Kuehne
External Relation 
RIPE NCC



 "Hans Petter Holen" <hph at online.no> writes:
  * Hmm, I am not shure I understand your reasoning, I always tought
  * * If the cueue increases there are to few hostmasters, or the hostmasters
  * spend to long time on each request.
  * * If the queue is long but not increasing, increasing the number of
  * hostmasters will bring down the cueue to zero, but
  * 
  * Possible fixes:
  * - increase the number of hostmasters
  * - lower the ammount of time spent on each request
  * 
  * the first is simple,
  * the second is more complex:
  * 
  * - make the hostmasters work faster (better training, faster computers, othe
  * r
  * incentives)
  * - simplify the procedures to make the work faster
  * - simplify the policy so that the procedures could be simpler
  * - clearify the policy/procedures so that the requests are resolved at first
  * iteration rather than requiring a number of interactions to solve a problem
  * - make the LIR staff sumitt better requests (better training, faster
  * computers, cleverer people)
  * 
  * >From looking at this from time to time, I don't think one single factor ca
  * n
  * solve the problem or bring us out of the situation we are in.
  * 
  * -hph
  *