I fail to see how RFC2826 is in any way "political". Upon careful re-reading it boils down to:
If you use one root, everybody agrees what things look like.
If you use multiple roots, what people will see depends on which root they ask.
How is this political?
It becomes political when it goes beyond those two statements and says "Since these two statements are true, everyone should use one root."
I disagree. If you accept the premise of the RFC, which is that the goal is to be able to communicate effectively, then this is a natural consequence of the first two statements, as explained in the RFC.
It becomes completely political when it expands that to encompass the concept of "ICANN root is the one true root. Thou shall have no other root before me."
Chapter and verse, please. You must be reading something I don't; I can't find any statements in there which says this. Regards, - Håvard