On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, this concept is already known and does not require a new standard or > proof about social networking or other electronic sites. > > A non-spoofable solution is to publish the hash of your publication in any > archived newspaper (i.e., in the personal ads in the back). > > See: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Linked_timestamping<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_timestamping> > > Thanks for your feedback. What the flower standard adds is:
1. Freedom to put your idea anywhere you like. Currently, social networking sites are the most reliable sites. Using social networking sites is our idea. RFC 3161 suggests the use of a time-stamp agent. But social networking sites already do this and they are more reliable and free of charge and easy to use. Another solution we are working on is augmenting modern poor man's copyright <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_man%27s_copyright>with a publish e-mail function. You can send your idea to yourself via e-mail. The service provider time-stamps it. You can show others your e-mail by publishing your e-mail. I.e. giving access to a particular e-mail. There are many possible solutions. Flower standard allows to use all of them. 2. The flower sign on a file indicates to the public that a document is original and protected using this method. If I see a document and there is no flower sign on it, I can pretend that it is mine or try to steal it. But if there is a flower sign I will know that it is protected. This will stop me. This is like the copyright sign. But the copyright sign has a different meaning. It doesn't explain that the idea is time-stamped. In addition, this concept is not about "copyright". It is about "proof of work". You can copy my work if I permit but the idea is mine and I can prove it. Cheers, Pars flower-standard.org ps: The newspaper solution is not really feasible. You can't find such newspaper and this is probably a slow solution. > Joe > > On 12/6/2012 3:56 AM, Pars Mutaf wrote: > >> Another feature: >> http://www.flower-standard.**org/spoow.html<http://www.flower-standard.org/spoow.html> >> <http://www.flower-standard.**com/spoow.html<http://www.flower-standard.com/spoow.html> >> > >> >> and the maths behind the flower standard: >> >> http://www.flower-standard.**org/maths.html<http://www.flower-standard.org/maths.html> >> >> Feedbacks would be appreciated if any. >> >> Cheers, >> Pars >> >> -- >> Pars Mutaf >> flower-standard.org <http://flower-standard.org> >> >> -- Pars Mutaf flower-standard.org _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
