Pith Number

pith:NCXSDNTX

pith:2016:NCXSDNTXDR3BIKAX42FZEDDPFL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are Today's SDN Controllers Ready for Primetime?

Guillaume Jourjon, Stephen Mallon, Vincent Gramoli

arxiv:1608.05140 v1 · 2016-08-18 · 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{NCXSDNTXDR3BIKAX42FZEDDPFL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:31.809645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68af21b6771c76142817e68b920c6f2ac1cb51c5c6c22b7184376cc21ed4a461

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05140 · arxiv_version: 1608.05140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05140 · pith_short_12: NCXSDNTXDR3B · pith_short_16: NCXSDNTXDR3BIKAX · pith_short_8: NCXSDNTX

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/NCXSDNTXDR3BIKAX42FZEDDPFL \
  | 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: 68af21b6771c76142817e68b920c6f2ac1cb51c5c6c22b7184376cc21ed4a461

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9af7788f39511ce77f288c894399292283385a43a581be4b650b1d8494a3fa8b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-18T00:41:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b28f0cb2634a1a1000657273ba1eb730326a0af73975dd6fb6b0daa484816b73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}