Honor's Code has written a brief history of the 969 rotation for pallys and analyzes how it works. I believe Honorshammer plays mostly as a protection paladin but I don't think this effects how 969 works for other types of paladins.
http://honorscode.blogspot.com/2009/06/back-to-basics-969-paladin-threat.html
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