Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Secure Channel Protocol

Secure Channel Protocol

does not establish notability. [1] returns a few related hits but a lot do not appear to be related and those that are do not appear to qualify as reliable sources. of course, who knows what consensus will decide - maybe for the purposes of this afd forum posts will be considered reliable sources. also, i don't like it. Misterdiscreet (talk) 21:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

delete Looks like an attempt at marketing by throwing unnotable cruft up on WP; the only references I can find to this protocol are in a 2002 working draft of a smartcard API, and a few scattered queries about java cards here and there. --moof (talk) 21:31, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This Google Scholar search gives me 34 scientific papers mentioning the term in connection with smart cards. I am getting the impression that this technology is still actively developed and probably in current use in credit cards by Visa and Mastercard. As it seems to be the main standard of GlobalPlatform, [this] Google News search also seems to be relevant.

All this said, the article is in a sad state. It seems to contain very technical information that may be important to some experts, but it makes a very bad job of establishing context. --Hans Adler (talk) 15:38, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]