* Gert Doering:
We will come up with a new proposal how to handle ERX space (which is not yet written and thus cannot be discussed yet).
It would make sense to handle this in the same document because some LIRs have converted EARLY-REGISTRATION to to ASSIGNED PI and some didn't.
I don't think recovering resources from unwilling end users is a good way to spend the membership fees. (I don't speak for any member, though.) And unless there is a clear incentive (which I don't see--the thread of revoking the assignment is not particularly convincing), a lot of end users will be unwilling.
One of the incentives would be "without a clear contractual relationship, we can't give out a certificate for this resource".
What kind of certificate? All RIPE policies say that the address space might not be usable for routing purposes. 2007-01, if implemented, could lead to competing claims of ownership for an address block which cannot be dismissed immediately as without merit.
The main focus for the implementation is "new resource assignments", of course, but for consistency reasons it's important to have a plan how to tackle existing stuff.
I see no consistency here because ERX and PA waste is totally ignored. Focusing on new assignments only would actually improve consistency.