Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

[Hector Santos <[e-mail]>]

On 9/16/2013 3:07 PM, David Morris wrote:
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> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Melinda Shore wrote:
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>> On 9/16/13 6:49 AM, Dave Cridland wrote:
>>> That's not to say you can't put any particular URI against your name in
>>> an RFC, mind, but I'd be rather hesitant to leap at mandating a
>>> registration procedure for authors.
>>
>> I think it's an interesting idea.  It might be worth talking
>> with Heather and with whoever maintains the xml2rfc schema
>> about whether or not we can or should experiment with adding
>> an ORCID element to the name element.
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> I don't see a need to mandate providing an ORCID or other identifier,
> but I can't see a reason not to support  inclusion of such an
> identifier at the contributor's option.

+1, if any mandate, then make it a IETF registry. :)

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