Re: [IETF] Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Warren Kumari
On Sep 17, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Michael Richardson m...@sandelman.ca wrote: I did not know about ORCID before this thread. I think it is brilliant, and what I've read about the mandate of orcid.org, and how it is managed, I am enthusiastic. I agree with what Joel wrote: Asking for ORCID

Re: [IETF] Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/17/13 1:08 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: Having an IETF identity is OK if all you ever publish is in the IETF. Some of our participants also publish at other SDOs such as IEEE, W3C, ITU, and quite a few publish Academic papers.

Re: [IETF] Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Warren Kumari
On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: On 9/17/2013 1:55 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:48 PM, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Michael

Re: [IETF] Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 18/09/2013 09:11, Melinda Shore wrote: On 9/17/13 1:08 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: Having an IETF identity is OK if all you ever publish is in the IETF. Some of our participants also publish at other SDOs such as IEEE, W3C, ITU,

Re: [IETF] Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread John Levine
It's practically essential for academics whose career depends on attribution of publications and on citation counts (and for the people who hire or promote them). Gee, several of the other John Levines have published way more than I have. If what we want is citation counts, confuse away. R's,