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", > Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly > > _______________________________________________ > rfc-interest mailing list -- rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org > To unsubscribe send an email to rfc-interest-le...@rfc-editor.org >
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