Thus spake Ben Cartwright-Cox via routing-wg (routing-wg@ripe.net) on Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 06:36:15PM +0100:
Now what about this as a follow-up brain fart; why doesn´t the RIPE NCC just announce their unallocated space? No adding or removing of ROAs, just announce it without a ROA? It will become ROA "unknown" so it will be accepted, and that will disincentivise the squatters from using the space because it´s no longer effective. If someone buys this space from RIPE, RIPE stop announcing it and the new owner can announce it and create a ROA and go on with their day.
(almost) Everyone's capacity for FIB entries is not unlimited, and unless you are suggesting RIPE de-aggregates to announcing every possible /24 of space (this would be somewhere between mildly and totally insane), a squatter can just announce a more specific to get around it
You would also have to take into account everything reserved as well.
curl https://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/delegated-ripencc-extended-latest.txt | grep reserved | wc -l 84668
Dale