LINX policy, which was endorsed at the two recent IEPG meetings, is that the proposed root server would be in the LINX neutral AS
This is was was discussed at the IEPG meeting, and the concensus was that "common resources" should be attached to public exchange points trough a dedicated router in a neutral way. Shared resources has to bee keept as neutral as possible, and having for example a root-name-server behind it's own router attached to a well recogized public exchange point seems to be the best avaliable implementation today. Thus all ISP's present at that echange point could peer, regardless of their peering policies to other ISP's and as there is no other service than the nameserver is behind that router, and I'm sure all of them (the ISP's peering) will give transit for the prefix used by the nameserver to other parts of the network. --Peter