Pith Number

pith:FI5RHCS3

pith:2017:FI5RHCS3EVQ4INSKIHBJFOUM24

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SDN as Active Measurement Infrastructure

Erik Rye, Robert Beverly

arxiv:1702.07946 v1 · 2017-02-25 · cs.NI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FI5RHCS3EVQ4INSKIHBJFOUM24}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:49:56.610620Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a3b138a5b2561c4364a41c292ba8cd7227ccb0a4672ed8a1a3a08625ec7ee86

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07946 · arxiv_version: 1702.07946v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07946 · pith_short_12: FI5RHCS3EVQ4 · pith_short_16: FI5RHCS3EVQ4INSK · pith_short_8: FI5RHCS3

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/FI5RHCS3EVQ4INSKIHBJFOUM24 \
  | 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: 2a3b138a5b2561c4364a41c292ba8cd7227ccb0a4672ed8a1a3a08625ec7ee86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85e269776dacbcfe52f24ff0d094e9a438177442380f008c6f81387d1c9a86e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-25T21:01:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0e7fa2708e4b6c39d3554bf2441a42f0cb7577e6b415dfc1894a08043dba9b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07946",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}