Agree for as long as there are addresses enough to meet the applicants needs. Yet it is IMHO pointless to hand out micro-blocks as a sorry response to a PA-request for a substantially larger block.
* michael.dillon@bt.com (michael.dillon@bt.com) [Thu 17 Sep 2009, 17:13 CEST]:
In particular, what if the applicant's competitor just received a much larger allocation two weeks earlier?
Same thing that happens when the person in front of you in the line at the cafetaria at work takes that last cupcake: you're outta luck.
Wrong! If RIPE has changed their policies so that they apply different criteria to you and your competitor, you are not out of luck. You now have grounds for a nice lawsuit against both RIPE and your competitor. The point is that if RIPE changes the policy, it has to do so in a way that does not convert the bad luck of running out of IPv4, into selective discrimination. --Michael Dillon