content owners vs. ISPs

[madmullah]

Ray Dillinger wrote:
> In the long run, I don't think the machinery of freedom is going
> to work very well until most of the nodes on the internet have
> at least three or four different routes to the internet.

	On that note, what's the most inexpensive way of becoming trully multi
homed, 
and how much of a pain is it to set up BGP ? What are the requirements
for getting an ASN number ?  Can a smaller ISP pull this off ?  This is
a serious question, I can't find a whole lot of information on this.