'Deserve'? Is this like China 'deserves' a /8? Do root servers have egos that need coddling?
Why do they NEED special address space? What's the matter with the address space of the normal networks in which they reside? If there is someing bad about those networks, then they need fixing, and access to the root (or other) servers will be fixed with that change.
I will echo Randy's sentiment here: is there a technical reason why the root name servers need special "provider-independent" addresses, or is this a solution looking for a problem? As far as I know, as long as one of the IP addresses in a local name server's root hints file is correct and that root name server is reachable, the local name server will operate correctly. Changes to the root hints file are currently not terribly frequent, and updating it once per half year (or maybe even less frequent) does not seem like an inordinately heavy burden. Without a technically well-founded reason for doing "weird" things with the routes for the root name servers, you can expect so see similarly ill-founded justifications from other folks wanting to do the same or similar things. As the recent events should make evident, the last thing we need right now is creating a precedent for spreading /32 routes or needlessly propagating other "special-purpose" and non-aggregateable routes. Regards, - Havard