What I hope for in the near future is a consortium of small-to-very-small providers together in one place hashing out IPv6 addressing plans that make sense and are scalable for our far-less-than academic size networks, right down to even just a simple flat network.

Yes, and I was hoping that ARIN's wiki pages here http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/IPv6_Addressing_Plans might be the venue for that discussion since a wiki is better for developing a collaborative document than a mailing list.

Also, it does not help that I am the only person in our organization that knows anything about IPv6, hence I have nobody internally I can actually throw ideas at.

I think that this is part of the reason why ARIN started the GetIPv6 wiki site. --Michael Dillon