Pith Number

pith:MK3L5KWJ

pith:2017:MK3L5KWJBIDAEES4DGOSXEO3EL

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Why (and How) Networks Should Run Themselves

Jennifer Rexford, Nick Feamster

arxiv:1710.11583 v1 · 2017-10-31 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MK3L5KWJBIDAEES4DGOSXEO3EL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:36.896741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62b6beaac90a0602125c199d2b91db22e0a6cedf5512fd1e35a25b5f22ecca8f

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.11583 · arxiv_version: 1710.11583v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.11583 · pith_short_12: MK3L5KWJBIDA · pith_short_16: MK3L5KWJBIDAEES4 · pith_short_8: MK3L5KWJ

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/MK3L5KWJBIDAEES4DGOSXEO3EL \
  | 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: 62b6beaac90a0602125c199d2b91db22e0a6cedf5512fd1e35a25b5f22ecca8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "252042757ed63b19a9c400663a4ed118d01d666556c9d13f02b112de4941ad4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-31T16:57:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c188da9358169b78dd0eeeadc59cca43c7225d103166ce62d7d1e2d12f1e554"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.11583",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}