Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP(www.theregister.com)

53 pointsby jonbaer5 hours ago5 comments

4ggr04 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).
- alopha4 hours ago
  There's some pretty cool stuff (and startups) out of EPFL!
  - ivell4 hours ago
    Scala for one.
- alex_suzuki3 hours ago
  It's also seeing some adoption in the healthcare sector.
- ahartmetz2 hours 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.
  - wink7 minutes ago
    Wondering what specific field of CS you're referring to, I'm seeing a much wider spread (and Saarbrücken does not even ring a bell). I was attending LMU and I have not kept up with the database stuff the last years from there but I feel like they published a lot of stuff.
  - nwellnhof10 minutes ago
    Stable Diffusion was developed at LMU München. There's also lots of interesting stuff coming out of RWTH Aachen.
1122334 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"?
- rahkiin3 hours 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...
  - rzerowan2 hours 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_ai2 hours ago
sounds good
ThePowerOfFuet4 hours ago
It sounds great. I wish him the best of luck rolling it out!
jamesvza2 hours ago
old article but still relevant. some things don't change