On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Just for clarification: We do not need to be members to use the system. > > R's, > John > -- Astra mortemque praestare gradatim
