Hello Francis and Jim,
We do not agree with this proposal.
Sooner or later RIPE IPv4 address space will run out. Moving from /22 to /24 will not change that, which is the essence of the question, but doing so will create more fragmentation (BGP, smaller LIRS, cost unfairness between members...).
In practical terms, we believe this will also boost IP broker market (the smaller the blocks, the stronger IP brokers will get).
Current policy is a good compromise: it focus on allocating to LIRs that assign and use address space ...until no more allocation can be done.
It seems you misunderstand the proposal. This policy agrees with you that /22s should be allocated until RIPE NCC runs out. It is about what happens afterwards. We create a waiting list with either /22 or /24 allocation size. - Choosing /22 means that the waiting list is unmanageable and therefore (mostly) useless. - Choosing /24 means that the waiting list is manageable and a bit less useless. We're not suggesting to change the allocation size now, only for the waiting list. Cheers, Sander