Pith Number

pith:ZL2QPA6J

pith:2017:ZL2QPA6J22MOOWQGDAPGPQFWZ5

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Bootstrapping Active IPv6 Measurement with IPv4 and Public DNS

Stephen D. Strowes

arxiv:1710.08536 v1 · 2017-10-23 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZL2QPA6J22MOOWQGDAPGPQFWZ5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:15.726639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caf50783c9d698e75a06181e67c0b6cf60c2f9f31e14b603062c479c326ee6d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.08536 · arxiv_version: 1710.08536v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.08536 · pith_short_12: ZL2QPA6J22MO · pith_short_16: ZL2QPA6J22MOOWQG · pith_short_8: ZL2QPA6J

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/ZL2QPA6J22MOOWQGDAPGPQFWZ5 \
  | 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: caf50783c9d698e75a06181e67c0b6cf60c2f9f31e14b603062c479c326ee6d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b21198fefd73d955a8db1370ad17b434f1a192d5b4b3a13f6400ea02e8559ac7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-23T22:44:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97f81336bb64ee49e4b21aa92a00fd00098e172e7e96f11235f4e5df383d73e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.08536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}