Hi,
If RIPE would enforce (just like with asn) the announcement of received /22s within a period of 1-2 months after the allocation, hoarding would be stopped. The sellers would not be able to advertise them as "brand new never used", as this detail gives them the most of their value.
Also, reinforcing the need of justification for requesting the /22, would slow the hoarders, as they would need to come up with (verifyable) justification.
There were lots of valid points against this policy, because it does not address the real problem, and moreso, RIPE NCC directly said that in their opinion it will have no effect over the small hoarding that is going on now. Please read the RIPE NCC impact analysis and you will see this.
Matei Storch
Profisol Telecom
0728.555.004
I fully support this (mail from opteamax gmbh) point of view! and, of course the policy proposal.
In my opinion it's a bad thing that RIPE did not have strong (backed up with strong detection of unused pools) policies even from the start.
Thinks are very complicated and i get that, problems can't be foreseen in future and it's easy to judge now how thins could be made easier/simpler but it's not late to start somewhere.
Another opinion/impression that i have (and this does not affect only RIPE region) is that big providers and content providers do not want ipv6 to be implemented because behind thoese guys are big interests of making profits over the ipv4 exaution and this happened as you saw in Romania (Jump Management) too.