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Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> Mon, 16 September 2013 23:48 UTC

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On 9/16/13 3:41 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Fair enough, but adding a public key to the record would enable
> authentication too.

I suppose it was inevitable that when it came into the IETF
it would balloon into an overcomplicated mess.  Think of it
as one metadata element, not a big blob of metadata elements.

Look at it this way: it's a classification tool.  Classification
has two functions - to group things which are like and to
distinguish things which are unlike.  That's all this does.

Melinda

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