Really like posts like this - when I first think of an AS, it seems unattainable by anyone but a larger corporation, but this really reduces it down to the nuts and bolts of what's necessary to create your own little segment of the internet. Pretty cool!
What I got out of this is that to be an AS, you either have to be a big company, or a small company with a lot of connections. There was a lot of stuff that relied on his friends helping him out. What if you don't have industry connections? You will never get the peering agreements needed by an AS unless you pay someone big bucks to peer with you.
