On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:25 PM, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:

because you would not accept a /30 cutout of the UMD /16 coming from some random IX in Singapore. (see Joe Ableys post earlier today on why legacy nodes are / have renumbered.)

/bill

Agreed on the routing (although I wouldn't ever expect to see the subnet encompassing a root server IP advertised in the wild with..anything even close to 30 bits), and understood on the minimal/non-existant operational impacts. Guess I'm just being curious.