We are not planning to do any more major changes to the current netcode. Only minor tweaks.
The major re-write will take in to consideration lag and all the other problems so the outcome should be a far superior netcode where lag / timeouts are kept to a strict minimum.
About the 10 Sec Delay.. You may have noticed a 0.3.1 server on ASE yesterday, this was a test server to see if any bugs remain in the upcoming release. They do, so work will carry on to fix then - shouldn't be long though.
This new server will incorporate flood prevention and a good job I might add.
No idea about the ASE IP Problem, I guess this is ASE's problem - Not Ours.