Pith Number

pith:5O2VKFNU

pith:2011:5O2VKFNUUDVPW7UK3M7JQKEDCX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Public Option: a Non-regulatory Alternative to Network Neutrality

Richard T. B. Ma, Vishal Misra

arxiv:1106.3242 v2 · 2011-06-16 · cs.NI · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5O2VKFNUUDVPW7UK3M7JQKEDCX}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:19:03.131735Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebb55515b4a0eafb7e8adb3e98288315c6298e05351be6e7c38187188052cdd9

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.3242 · arxiv_version: 1106.3242v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.3242 · pith_short_12: 5O2VKFNUUDVP · pith_short_16: 5O2VKFNUUDVPW7UK · pith_short_8: 5O2VKFNU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5O2VKFNUUDVPW7UK3M7JQKEDCX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ebb55515b4a0eafb7e8adb3e98288315c6298e05351be6e7c38187188052cdd9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba76bf7d8e223c8b3c484a2145c63096a746e0830f9149a5b0a721374c8df3a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-16T14:18:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4edf44268e09d44ec5b51ca7b2ae27e1f2117081dc6152b6e220d8f9e086b4dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.3242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}