I see some that are lacking much of written text, Look at the request of me and charos for gaian GB and how it differ from my request of mamoru but yet both have pretty good RP justification, one have lot of background and one have written text reasons.
So to someone that looks at them might say: "Oh look he is friend of that guy from xxxx" when infact its simply stuff you didn't know.
So all in all, yes I think there is RP that is given prior to those tech permissions and I trust that does who have the power to give those tech permissions WILL think about it, yes they might be lighter with their mates, but they will still demand some nice amount of RP before doing anything.