Dear colleagues, We would like to give you an update on the ticket wait times in Registry Services, after discussions at RIPE 82 [1] and on the mailing list [2]. We have been addressing the issues causing delays. As the number of incoming requests continue to exceed previous years, we have taken on additional staff to help with the workload. We are also automating some of our due diligence processes which are currently time consuming. You should start to see improvements in our response times towards the end of this year once our new colleagues are trained and our automation is ready. In the meantime, you may experience slower response times. In other words, we will be slower before we can get up to speed properly, but we think this will be worth it over the long term. We also know from experience that we receive far more requests towards the end of the year which results in a bottleneck. We will shift resources to counter this, but we would also appreciate it if you could get some of these requests in earlier. Kind regards, Marco Schmidt Registry Services Assistant Manager RIPE NCC [1] RIPE NCC Operational Update (slides 4-10): https://ripe82.ripe.net/archives/video/584/ [2] Discussion on Members Discuss mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2021-May/004353.html