Why do people keep talking about 200 sites? This is a fallacy. The policy actually says: 6.5. Policies for allocations and assignments 6.5.1. Initial allocation 6.5.1.1. Initial allocation criteria To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an organization must: a) be an LIR; b) not be an end site; c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations to which it will assign /48s, by advertising that connectivity through its single aggregated address allocation; and d) have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organizations within two years. That's 200 other organizations, not 200 sites. Note also the requirements for LIR and not an end site. I don't know if this is in line with the RIPE policies (which is probably what BBC had to deal with, but, this is the ARIN policy, and, since this is NAnog, I think ARIN is the relevant policy). Owen