[Tccc] The flower standard
Pars Mutaf
pars.mutafatgmail.com
Tue Dec 4 05:19:18 EST 2012
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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Pars Mutaf <pars.mu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> We researchers suffer from the following paradox:
>
> 1. When we have an idea, we wish to publish it as fast as possible to
> receive credit for it
> 2. However, we are afraid that others finalize our idea before us
>
> The solution to this problem is to publish the SHA-1 hash of our document.
> If someone
> else finds the same idea later, we can prove that we found it before them.
>
> We may also want to share our unpublished idea with others in order to
> receive feedback.
> But we are afraid that they copy it. Publishing the SHA-1 of our document
> as fast as possible
> solves this problem.
>
> This solution was used by Galileo:
>
> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/01/24/the-open-science-paradox/
>
> The following algorithm that I designed provides this solution:
>
> flower-standard.org
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pars Mutaf
>
> PS:
> An alternative is to publish a technical report as Joe Touch suggested.
> But using flower standard
> you can also protect an idea if you are a freelance researcher, or if you
> do not have enough text for a
> technical report.
>
>
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