Hi Orie,
At 08:39 AM 04-04-2025, Orie wrote:
Last night, I had a dream regarding this email thread.
In the dream, I was reviewing a proposal for a
new ID system proposed for standardization at
ITU-T based on the unix timestamp associated
with the subject's birthdate, and the ccTLD for
the country they were born in, that looked very
much like the ORCID examples shared here.
The dream proposal was not well received by the dream mailing list.
This was not my first dream of reviewing IETF email list discussions.
I went through the thread again. Q Misell used
an old thread to ask a question about personal
identifiers in IETF RFCs. Phillip Hallam-Baker
commented that there is a need for personal
identifiers controlled by end users and
recommended DNS handles as a way
forward. Michael Jones asked about the
percentage of the world population renting a
domain name. Viktor Dukhovni provided some
statistics. Martin Dürst commented that owners
of some (super)domains ay decide to 'kick out'
some people that use subdomains. Jeffrey Walton
dropped in a short comment about Zooko's Triangle.
An easy option is to use ORCID and move on to the
next problem. The easy option would not address
the "who is in control" question; Kathleen
Moriarty expressed her preference about
that. Another option is to classify "personal
identifiers" as a research problem.
I came across this illustration: http://r.elandsys.com/r/17173
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
