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I don't think there's any policy which states that the RIPE NCC can't do this. On the other hand, there may be operational reasons why they wouldn't: preferential treatment and assignment of potentially polluted address ranges being two that immediately spring to mind.
For Sergey really, sorry Nick This whole vanity address idea is complete nonsense and shouldn't be entertained for a second. You'll get what you're given allocation-wise, though it's possible you'd be fortunate and get something memorable from the swamp I guess if someone's feeling nice- and then 'normal' space for the rest of your PA As far as I can gather there was cold hard cash exchanging hands for 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 - fine for some people and in the ARIN region it's a lot more liberal in that sense, but really I should think that RIPE have more pressing matters to deal with instead of trying to find a perhaps nonexistent clause that prevents you from wasting good peoples time It's a bad idea to set a precedent here, surely?