Oh I could do that. But then... What the hell are policies for anyway! That's the scope of this thread really. Policies are, or should be, a good thing. Otherwise they are just a bad joke. Is that what RIRs want? Fine.
Policies are only as good as the people who write them. Since people are flawed, policies will also be flawed. But if there is a good process for changing policies when flaws are noticed, then we can muddle through the flaws. I think RIPE does have a good process for changing policies. However, the policy in effect today is the one that we must follow, even though it has flaws. So instead of complaining about the flaws, work with them. Write a plan to assign 200 /48s within the next two years and get your /32. If there is ever a new policy that allows you to go to RIPE for a small PI block, then you can always hand back the /32 and renumber. Since IPv6 policy allows for all end-sites to use a /48, it should be very easy to renumber. And since we are a long, long way from a shortage of IPv6 addresses, if you need to keep both old and new addresses active for a couple of years, there is no problem. IPv6 is happy to use two different addresses for every interface. --Michael Dillon P.S. I think it is a good idea to have a formal policy to give people PI blocks smaller than a /32 prefix. --Michael Dillon