Agree to adding ability to add ORCIDs, strongly disagree as to mechanism.

ORCIDs should be a URI scheme.

Just tweak the spec to allow multiple URIs.

On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM John R. Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote:

> You may have seen some discussions about ORCIDs on the main IETF list.
> Here's a concrete proposal to add them to rfcxml.
>
> I propose to add a new sub-element to the author element called orcid.
> Its formal definition would be text, just like email or uri, but the idea
> is that it contains your ORCID, like this:
>
>      <author fullname="John Levine">
>        <organization/>
>        <address>
>          <postal>
>            <country>US</country>
>          </postal>
>          <email>standa...@standcore.com</email>
>          <orcid>0000-0001-7553-5024</orcid>
>        </address>
>      </author>
>
> I realize you can put the ORCID URI in the URI field, or if you're
> Carsten you can sneak it into the email field, but the idea is that the
> contents of the <orcid> element is an ORCID and nothing else.
>
> It'd be rendered as a line in the address, probably with a link to the
> orcid.org site in the HTML, e.g.:
>
>         ORCID <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7553-5024
> ">0000-0001-7553-5024</a>
>
> As far as I can tell this would be backward compatible and should not be
> hard to implement.  The various markdown processors would have to add a
> way to put in your ORCID but again that doesn't seem hard.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
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