Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

[Hector Santos <[e-mail]>]

On 9/17/2013 4:52 PM, Yoav Nir wrote:
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> Having an IETF identity is OK if all you ever publish is in the IETF. Some of our participants also publish at other SDOs such as IEEE, W3C, ITU, and quite a few publish Academic papers. Using the same identifier for all these places would be useful, and that single identifier is not going to be an @ietf.org email address.
>

Then for these unique individuals, a single source id is useful for 
them and should be recommended to consolidate contact consistent and 
persistent information.  People are increasingly doing that now with 
what was once alias junk domains, i.e. gmail.com, google+, even 
facebook, twitter, etc. I know I have move away from a using a 
corporate id in public that are now protected (in spirit) by ADSP and 
DKIM.  But as a total, don't you think the ietf.org will benefit in 
the long run maintaining its own registry?

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HLS