On the other hand, following recommendations to us, our intention is to put a root name server in a class C by itself. There has been a lot of discussion in this area, and this is what I understand to be the recommended policy. We don't care what AS this class C is in; on the whole we would probably prefer that it not be in one of our ASs.
At the risk of AOL-ism, I too prefer the consensus agreement reached by all the LINX members who were at the AGM. Just because all LINX members currently peer with VBC, this does not mean that new members will be allowed to, want to, or that current members will continue to be allowed to / continue to want to. As I understand it, the latest IETF & IEPG proposals suggest that the servers should be at exchange points transitted by several people and run in a neutral manner (apologies if this a misrepresentation), not transitted by a single member, albeit from a point close to an IXP. As far as I know the LINX proposal has always been on the table modulo the issue of whether .com etc. where secondaried there as well as '.' and the transit bandwidth implications thereof. Alex Bligh Xara Networks