Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

[Hector Santos <[e-mail]>]

On 9/17/2013 3:24 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
> On 9/17/13 11:14 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> For example
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3237.txt
>> has 7 authors. I know that at least 4 affiliations have changed
>> and at least you can't reach me anymore via the given e-mail
>> address or telephone number.
>
> This is not the problem ORCID addresses, except indirectly.
> It's a way to establish that the author Melinda Shore who
> worked at Cisco is the same author Melinda Shore who worked
> at the Center for Research Libraries.  It is NOT a contact
> mechanism, a personal tracking mechanism, etc.

But how much of a problem is that?  Why not advocate gmail.com, 
google+, facebook.com, linked-in?  I registered at ORCID and it found 
a similar named registrant.  It only wanted to know if it was me, if 
not then continue.  But all the newsletter spam potential and privacy 
issues and even more in there, well, scared me.  It had multiple 
levels of privacy to select and too much reading required to follow 
it.  So I punted on that.

Why can't the IETF offers its own signup requirement for I-D 
submissions where a contact id can be provided?   The focus should be 
within the @IETF.ORG, not try to steer folks to use some 3rd party 
contact id where the IETF has no legal hold or control of any kind, in 
case, well, of the many things that can happen.

Thanks

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HLS