[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Måns Nilsson wrote:
> --On Tuesday, March 04, 2003 16:14:57 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp
> <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
> > I'm mainly talking about the lack of a feasible way for end-customers
> > to get working multi-homing.  This ties directly into the "PI" space
> > question.
> 
> Multihoming today depends on the possession of an AS number. I see no
> alternative to that prerequisite.

No, (global) AS number is definitely not required, and if you really want, 
you could do without even a private ASn.

A rather common scenario is to use private ASN to two providers, and leak
more specifics from beyond your preferred ISP to the world -- and connect
to the ISP as a secondary which owns the aggregate.

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