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Internet-Draft draft-dekater-scion-dataplane-11.txt is now available.

   Title:   SCION Data Plane
   Authors: Corine de Kater
            Nicola Rustignoli
            Jean-Christophe Hugly
            Samuel Hitz
   Name:    draft-dekater-scion-dataplane-11.txt
   Pages:   67
   Dates:   2026-02-06

Abstract:

   This document describes the Data Plane of SCION (Scalability,
   Control, and Isolation On Next-generation networks), a path-aware,
   inter-domain network architecture.

   Unlike IP-based forwarding, SCION embeds inter-domain forwarding
   directives in the packet header, enabling endpoints to construct and
   select end-to-end paths from segments discovered by the Control
   Plane.  The role of the Data Plane is to combine such segments into
   end-to-end paths, and to forward data according to the specified
   path.

   This document describes the SCION packet format, header structure,
   and extension headers.  It also describes the cryptographic
   mechanisms used for path authorization, processing at routers
   including a life of a packet example.

   This document contains new approaches to secure path aware
   networking.  It is not an Internet Standard, has not received any
   formal review of the IETF, nor was the work developed through the
   rough consensus process.  The approaches offered in this work are
   offered to the community for its consideration in the further
   evolution of the Internet.

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dekater-scion-dataplane/

There is also an HTML version available at:
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