New Document available: RIPE-233

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, ...

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