RE: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

["Pat Thaler" <[e-mail]>]

Given this comment in John Levin's post: " PS: Now that I think about it, you can already put in a personal URL
in rfc2xml, so if someone wants to use an ORCID URL, they can do so
right now." it seems like there isn't any need to change the schema.

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 5:57 AM
To: Andy Mabbett
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

Heather Flanagan can be most easily reached at
[e-mail], the specified email address for reaching the 
rfc-editor.
Note however that you need to be clear as to what you are asking her. 
If you are asking that she arrange for the tools to include provision 
for using ORCHIDs, that is a reasonable request.  SUch a request would 
presumably be prioritized along with the other tooling improvement that 
are under consideration.

On the other hand, if youa re asking that the IETF endorse or encourage 
such uses, there are two problems.  First, the RFC Editor does not speak 
for the IETF.  You need to actually get a determination of IETF rough 
consensus on the ietf email list.  That consensus would need to be based 
on a more specific question than "do we want to allow ORCHIDs", and then 
would be judged on that question by the IETF chair.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

On 9/17/13 8:26 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 17 September 2013 13:07, Melinda Shore <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> I'm not sure much needs to be done other than talking with Heather
>> Flanagan (the RFC Editor), getting her sign-off, and then getting
>> it into the xml2rfc schema and noting its existence.
>
> Thank you. Is Heather on this list?
>
>> I hope that what's going on here is *not* that there's been
>> little uptake and you're trying to promote its use.
>
> On the contrary; the uptake from both individuals, and organisations
> incorporating ORCID into their publishing workflows - is impressive,
> as you can see form reading the ORCID website & blog.
>