Hi Marco,
I would also like to respond to the point that both you and Matthew made about the RIPE NCC taking a more liberal approach in our interpretation. There is a balance to be struck here, between allowing for corner cases, and the requirements being clearly listed and adhered to. Our understanding in the impact analysis is based both on our previous experience with IPv6 requests and our interpretation of the policy text. If the community would like us to take a more liberal approach, we will need some additional guidelines on how to evaluate the requests in the proposed policy text.
Perhaps this is where the difficulty lies... A liberal approach generally presupposes the absence of rules and/or precise definition and so trying to put specifics into policy to promote such an approach may be counter-productive. On that basis I think I'd prefer not to see the proposed policy text containing even more detail than it does now. I guess this is where the Impact Analysis, and its publication, plays such a key role - it helps form a common understanding between RIPE NCC and the community as to how the policy can/will be implemented without requiring the policy text to be so specific. Taking this a step further it can also allow for a pragmatic approach to be taken where necessary and appropriate i.e. it captures the spirit of the law as opposed to the letter. Mathew