Pith Number

pith:XBBUB5CI

pith:2018:XBBUB5CIWDB2RIOTUEUWY4U4R2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Distributed Routing Algorithm for Internet-wide Geocast

Bernd Meijerink, Geert Heijenk, Mitra Baratchi

arxiv:1805.01690 v1 · 2018-05-04 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBBUB5CIWDB2RIOTUEUWY4U4R2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:47.048736Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b84340f448b0c3a8a1d3a1296c729c8eb303e7c2b8e32012fdb11d21eaad5f9f

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01690 · arxiv_version: 1805.01690v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01690 · pith_short_12: XBBUB5CIWDB2 · pith_short_16: XBBUB5CIWDB2RIOT · pith_short_8: XBBUB5CI

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/XBBUB5CIWDB2RIOTUEUWY4U4R2 \
  | 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: b84340f448b0c3a8a1d3a1296c729c8eb303e7c2b8e32012fdb11d21eaad5f9f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de187e48cd0e59bd1291acfa413990ed8f492b242697ad3f854e50054c0960f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-04T09:58:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c78ffa88ec7d0b7a6cf6dc7be949496b0aa60ad75a60e50bcd4a09bfe05a1c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01690",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}