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"?
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.
And that patent looks like it is for an optimization, not a necessary component of SCiON.