Policy and PR problem

Hi,
I am just attending a seminar in Broad band networks, and met again the
claim that

-"it is currently very difficult to get IP address space" and as a result of
that we have to plan complex network solutions with a combination of private
and public addresses.

This claim is very different from the one I tend to make: "you get the
addresses you need as long as you can provide documentation that you realy
need them".

personally I think that we have a serious PR problem here: is it so that the
rules and regulations have become so strict and complicated that we, the
lirs, tell our customers that this is very difficult and you should realy
use private addresses, rather than explaining how the procedures and
policies realy work ?

Is this what we want ?

-hph