[q3k]

> SCION right now provides the backbone for the Swiss financial network moving 200 billion CHF each day

This is a meaningless benchmark - for a small group of trusted big enterprises with insurance policies and mutually signed contracts you could've just as well used OSPF with zero filters.

The benchmark would be adoption by an actual large number of parties that don't/can't talk to eachother spread across the world. With a large chunk of them being malicious or incompetent to the point of being effectively malicious.

[xyquadrat]

I'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.

[q3k]

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?

[pigggg]

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.

[raron]

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.