[Tccc] The flower standard

Pars Mutaf pars.mutafatgmail.com
Tue Dec 4 05:13:07 EST 2012



 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We may also want to share our unpublished idea with others in order to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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