Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> Mon, 16 September 2013 14:52 UTC

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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.

Melinda