[snip] Re LACNIC, I don't know what kind of organizations are or aren't headquartered within the LACNIC region, so, I"m not willing to make assumptions. I'm betting that there are plenty of commercial organizations in Columbia that have at least 200 manufacturing and distribution centers, but, the number of actual sites is really irrelevant to the discussion... See my rebuttal to 3 below.
3. There are plenty of large organizations that are multihomed that don't have 200 locations.
That is too bad for those organizations (under current policy) Do these organizations all have their own ASN? If so, there are still at the moment <30k of these, so should not be a large issue to give them a alloc, ARIN has these special micro-allocs, not that that helps the routing table size but still.
OK.. I tried to make my point a bit left-handedly, and apparently, it got missed. The number of sites is irrelevant to the discussion. In order for an org. to qualify for v6 space, said org needs to have a plan for allocating at least 200 /48s to other orgs. within some period of time. (I forget the exact clock). Anyway, while it would be easy for a company to define each site as a separate org., there are lots of other ways to define orgs. too. For example, business units. A school could, theoretically, divide each grade level up into separate orgs. if they wanted. Separate administrative control boundaries could be treated as separate orgs. Subsidiaries, spin-offs, joint ventures, each employee, etc. LOTS of ways to create orgs if one really wants to. If I ran a company that employed 200 people and I decided I was going to put together a plan to provide household IP service to each of my employees to enable telecommuting, that would be 200 orgs right there. Anyway, I hope that makes the point a little more clear. It is really not hard to qualify for a /32 under the current policy. Especially since there is absolutely no requirement to make good on your plan, you just have to have a plan. Owen
Greets, Jeroen