Havard Eidnes said:
I'll claim that the actual numeric sequence (or non-sequence) of the IPv6 address blocks allocated to the root name servers do not matter; the identity of the blocks will be well-known anyway, so there is no robustness gain to be had from picking "obscure" or "scattered" numbers.
Actually, I can think of one reason to scatter them: it means that an erroneous route table entry (whether due to someone's error or a router bug) is less likely to take them all out. Whereas if they're all in the same (say) /28, ... -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <clive@demon.net> | Tel: +44 20 8371 1138 Internet Expert | Home: <clive@davros.org> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 Thus plc | | NOTE: fax number change