alt Hacker NewsI'm not claiming that this shows SCION can replace the respective parts of the network stack right now, and you're right that at a global scale this is still an unproven technology. But I would argue that a technology needs a certain level of matureness / is not "snake oil" if it is deployed in a heavily regulated and comparatively conservative sector such as banking.
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raron • yesterday at 10:25 PM
Why does a routing protocol matter for the banking sector? With proper encryption the route the packets of transaction data takes should not matter at all.
q3k • yesterday at 10:13 PM
Aren't heavily regulated sectors the one where you usually encounter snake oil? Useless WAFs and other security snake oil products, Microsoft 'collaboration' jank like Teams and Sharepoint, MitM proxies, etc?
I gotta say some of the proposed use cases are things no one is looking/asking for. One I recall was having a network decide to reach another network by avoiding countries that aren't carbon neutral (which could take longer hops and use more infra / more energy...) feels like they're trying to say they're the green/environmental friendly protocol.