[isp-bgp] BCP for multi-homing to the same provider entail using a private ASN

["C. Jon Larsen" <jlarsen@...>]

I have always used a private ASN (or UUnet's shared ASN 7046 when dealing 
with UUnet) when multihoming to the *same* provider. 

I can't seem to convince Sprint to let my customer do this - we have 3 
Sprint t1s in different geographic locations and simply want to announce 
our prefixes (with no-export of course). I was told we'd need to get an 
ASN to run BGP. This seems wasteful, especially w/ ASNs being 16bit 
numbers that are rapidly depleting. 

Any ideas ? Anyone know how to approach this better w/ Sprint ? 

bgp4-admin@... has not responded to my request and its been a 
week+. 

Or should my customer go ahead and apply for an ASN even though we have 
no plans to multihome to different providers.

TIA 

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