Pith Number

pith:YJQNOTNE

pith:2016:YJQNOTNE5ZQ7R666I76NG44T6Q

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A Comparison of Approaches for Traffic Engineering in IP and MPLS Networks

Alan Gous, Arash Afrakhteh, John Evans

arxiv:1608.03770 v1 · 2016-08-12 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YJQNOTNE5ZQ7R666I76NG44T6Q}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:09:11.427388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c260d74da4ee61f8fbde47fcd37393f43675a985ac2328321f047b13c719284c

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.03770 · arxiv_version: 1608.03770v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.03770 · pith_short_12: YJQNOTNE5ZQ7 · pith_short_16: YJQNOTNE5ZQ7R666 · pith_short_8: YJQNOTNE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YJQNOTNE5ZQ7R666I76NG44T6Q \
  | 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: c260d74da4ee61f8fbde47fcd37393f43675a985ac2328321f047b13c719284c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d25edf303e407bc1b38e445f8b5a762e617c34a98dc34f839e4b4bda8b15857f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-12T12:19:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c78828872923c47ffdaa158cd6ca6c5c6112c815c2b486e6234afd3bb255ebe"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}