root name servers

How about trying to move some of the root name servers to the exchange
points?

This will make them avaliable to all ISP/NSP's regardless of peering
arrangements with others and would also improve connectivity to them.

For security and stability reasons (aswell as political) they should
not be run by a single organisation.

This is already being done.
  You have one at the DGix, the Internic machine is being moved,
  and there is a proposal to move/add additional
  servers to other exchange points around the globe.

What else would you suggest doing?

I'm working on a plan to restructure the mbone topology to better reflect
the current actual topology. There are some other ideas in the mill.