A better alternative would be something like this:

<stable-person-identifier type=“orcid” uri=“https://…” />

This is labelling semantically and providing an extensible format for later 
support of other schemes. 

Jay
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Jay Daley 
IETF Executive Director

> On 14 Apr 2025, at 09:56, John R. Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2025, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> No, the point of an <orcid> field is that you know it's an ORCID and can do 
> things with it that are specific to ORCIDs.  If you want a generic URI, you 
> already have that.
> 
> R's,
> John
> 
>> 
>>> 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.
> 
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