Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP(theregister.com)
50 points byjonbaer4 hours ago |5 comments
4ggr03 hours ago
One 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).

alopha2 hours ago
There's some pretty cool stuff (and startups) out of EPFL!
ivell2 hours ago
Scala for one.
alex_suzuki2 hours ago
It's also seeing some adoption in the healthcare sector.
ahartmetz1 hour ago
Eh, 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.
1122333 hours ago
Nice 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"?
rahkiin1 hour ago
Well, 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...
rzerowan1 hour ago
Yeah 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.

lovebite4u_ai52 minutes ago
sounds good
jamesvza52 minutes ago
old article but still relevant. some things don't change
ThePowerOfFuet3 hours ago
It sounds great. I wish him the best of luck rolling it out!