Pith Number

pith:RBA7DSGK

pith:2014:RBA7DSGKWFB7TM6RO3SVP4HSPL

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A Promise Theory Perspective on Data Networks

Mark Burgess, Mike Dvorkin, Paul Borril, Todd Craw

arxiv:1405.2627 v1 · 2014-05-12 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RBA7DSGKWFB7TM6RO3SVP4HSPL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:05.090202Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8841f1c8cab143f9b3d176e557f0f27ac3737924e804a028dd9754cdb43da401

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.2627 · arxiv_version: 1405.2627v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.2627 · pith_short_12: RBA7DSGKWFB7 · pith_short_16: RBA7DSGKWFB7TM6R · pith_short_8: RBA7DSGK

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/RBA7DSGKWFB7TM6RO3SVP4HSPL \
  | 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: 8841f1c8cab143f9b3d176e557f0f27ac3737924e804a028dd9754cdb43da401

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ade27b67fb4599bad6a7dc410fe7e71aedf7474c5d2ffaee08b24475d8455fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-12T05:03:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abd6b3099320d64f934604b626312a9ee435624db681ca1873352fbaa5bdc347"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.2627",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}