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Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP
- 112233 7mo agoNice to see BGP getting called out. Meanwhile, the fact neither quagga nor frr nor bird SCION patches are available by googling 5 seconds — and they want "company like cisco"?
- rahkiin 7mo agoWell, SCION might not be open. No open standard, no IETF, no open source implementation, and its single commercial exploiter has patents on the technology: https://www.anapaya.net/news/path-selection-system-patent?hs_amp=true https://www.anapaya.net/news/path-selection-system-patent?hs...
- rzerowan 7mo agoYeah seems likethe business interests have overridden the adpotion needs. Knowing the IETF process is molasses slow , they still have not made moves to close that gap.For open source at least a implementation RFC that interested parties could work with - none avaiable. They want to sell a technically brillant protocol that is single vendor propriety/patent restricted. Their bet should have been of open protocol and captalizing on fist mover advantage to drive their business side witha large partner like ericsson/cisco etc. Of course theres also the soveriegnity angle knowing what went on with another swiss company CryptoAG.
- jbotz 7mo agoOpen Source implementation: https://github.com/scionproto/scion https://github.com/scionproto/scion And that patent looks like it is for an optimization, not a necessary component of SCiON.
- eqvinox 7mo agoQuagga is fully dead. And neither of these is appropriate for SCION since it replaces much more of the Internet.
- ThePowerOfFuet 7mo agoIt sounds great. I wish him the best of luck rolling it out!
- 4ggr0 7mo agoOne day some cool new IT tech will come out of Switzerland without it being an ETH Zürich thing. Not saying that that's a bad thing but it's almost comical how one can read such headlines, think "that's probably coming out of ETHZ" and be correct most times. I guess a lot of american IT comes out of MIT, Switzerland is way smaller so it makes sense that there's an even larger bias towards one institute. Wonder how wide SCION will spread, so far it sounds like it's being used by the Swiss Financial Sector (ugh, even more stereotypical now).
- alopha 7mo agoThere's some pretty cool stuff (and startups) out of EPFL!
- ivell 7mo agoScala for one.
- alex_suzuki 7mo agoIt's also seeing some adoption in the healthcare sector.
- ahartmetz 7mo agoEh, at least you have the ETH and EPFL. Germany has... TU München and Uni Saarbrücken? I once met a CS postdoc from Uni Saarbrücken who was (and is) doing interesting stuff - he's a professor in Switzerland now.
- lovebite4u_ai 7mo agosounds good
- jamesvza 7mo ago[dead]
- ameliaquining 7mo agoNo, the publication date on this is yesterday.
- eqvinox 7mo agoNo they didn't, they built an alternative to the Internet. It can't replace BGP on the existing internet.
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- Rager74 7mo ago[dead]