It appears that Christian Huitema <huitema@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: >I think it depends what we are trying to achieve. If the problem is >"author of an IETF document has changed employers three times, I need to >get the current email", then ORCID works -- that's almost exactly what >they are designed to do. ORCID membership is limited to non profit No, anyone can join. Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, and Wiley are members. I can assure you those are all about as far from non-profit as you can imagine. >organizations, the type that publishes academic papers, but the IETF, >internet drafts and RFCs almost certainly are in scope. There is a membership category for non-profits with budgets more than $10M and less than $200M. That would be us. Perhaps we should plan for a BOF in Madrid to figure out what changes we might want to make to the Datatracker, the RFCXML format, and the publication process to make use of ORCIDs. And whether we want to ask the LLC to budget $5K/yr to join. R's, John
