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In my head it'd be pretty easy to achieve:
If you have two stationary players within the masked area then the ref would warn the players "one of you needs to leave the D", if they failed to do that then you'd stop the game and ask the player to leave the D and that if they did it again they'd be ejected for 30 seconds (obviously you could play advantage and issue a ball turnover and warning once the play had ended instead).
The main thing for me is encouraging players not to defend so much (meaning less of a knife fight in front of each team's goal all the time), it'd be a penalty and would need a neat name: Turtling? Shielding? Double-Goalieing?
In practice there would probably be few calls, but lots of warnings/encouragement to run a more active defence? The area in question would be pretty small (two goals wide by one meter deep)?
If it'd make people really unhappy then we'd abandon it I imagine? No-one wants to travel to a tournament to have some strange rules imposed on them last minute.