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> I would agree that having them in on single block could
> make for certain types of capture problems.

I have to ask a rhetorical question here, what is a "block" in this
context?

Is it a single routing announcement?  Surely, it cannot be, because
the different root name servers are placed at different points in the
topology.

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.

I do however agree with those which have said that a root name server
should not have its address changed when it moves between RIR regions;
the whole point of this "special" assignment to the root name servers
is to avoid *any* renumbering because the DNS bootstrap data is
(currently) distributed in a static configuration file.

Regards,

- Håvard