On 2025-04-12, at 10:55, Colin Perkins <csp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Several RFCs put an Orcid in the URI field of the author’s address. Right, as of today: 2 0000-0001-7604-8041 2 0000-0001-9246-0263 8 0000-0002-0715-6126 12 0000-0002-2647-2220 2 0000-0002-7970-7855 Some authors use the ORCID as the only real piece of information beyond name, email address, and country, essentially delegating the maintenance of this information to ORCID. While most of these RFCs are about a subject related to digital archiving and linking to information, at least one appears to be in a very different field of technology (RFC 8915). I think it would be useful to establish a convention to publish the ORCID URI (with https:// please, 10 of the above still use http://) — maybe the IRTF stream can be first for that. I have already wondered whether I should do this, just waiting for a little nudge... Unfortunately, the xml2rfc vocabulary only allows one URI per author (while it does allow multiple email addresses!), so such a convention might be preemptive for those that want to publish an institutional URI as well (unless and until RFCXML gets fixed; I’m not holding my breath). Grüße, Carsten
