Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-19 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net I would even suggest that all I-D authors, at the very least, should need to register with the IETF to submit documents. Oddly enough, back in the Dark Ages (i.e. the ARPANET), the DDN maintained such a registry, and so if you Google 'NC3

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-19 Thread John Levine
I would even suggest that all I-D authors, at the very least, should need to register with the IETF to submit documents. Oddly enough, back in the Dark Ages (i.e. the ARPANET), the DDN maintained such a registry, and so if you Google 'NC3 ARPANET' you will see that that was the ID

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
I agree with both, but maybe the problem is that people from academia are not participating enough to report to ADs their concerns (e.g. what is bad in ietf, or lack of diversity), on the other hand, people from industry are more organised and don't need/want the academians ideas/participations

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with both, but maybe the problem is that people from academia are not participating enough to report to ADs their concerns (e.g. what is bad in ietf, or lack of diversity), on the other hand, people

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:09 AM, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: on the other hand, people from industry are more organised and don't need/want the academians ideas/participations :-) The IETF is not an industry organization. We want (and get!) participation from a wide

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 09/18/2013 10:22 AM, Riccardo Bernardini wrote: With limited resources (not only funds, also students are nowadays a scarce resource) we must concentrate our efforts where the return for unit of work is larger. While I sympathise, that must above is a choice. Since an academic

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 September 2013 20:14, Michael Tuexen michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de wrote: I really think that you all are completely over-engineering this. +1 Really? Each RFC lists the addresses of the authors. There are, in the RfC I used as an example, far more acknowledged contributors, than

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 September 2013 20:44, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: The idea is great. By why use ORCID? Why not Facebook? linked-in? etc. So many issues when its 3rd party. Facebook, LinkedIn (and other such services) are commercial, and proprietary. Their data is not available under a CC0

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 September 2013 20:58, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: But all the newsletter spam potential and privacy issues IETF has no legal hold or control of any kind, in case, well, of the many things that can happen. Please elaborate on these issues and things, in order that specific

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 September 2013 21:10, Tony Hansen t...@att.com wrote: What would the ORCID reference look like? My understanding is that it would look like this: http://orcid.org/-0003-0437- That is correct. Very few people use the uri element in the author block. (I count zero in the

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 September 2013 21:13, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: On 17 September 2013 14:37, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: Seems to me to be a conflict of interest issue. Please explain where this conflict supposedly lies. Too many to list. Then please list a few. Why not

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 18 September 2013 02:44, Andrew G. Malis agma...@gmail.com wrote: Checking out the ORCID site, I noticed that when manually adding a work, one of the possible external IDs is Request for Comments. So they certainly seem to be aware of the RFC series. The site already has the ability to

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Tony Hansen
On 9/18/2013 8:45 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 17 September 2013 21:10, Tony Hansen t...@att.com wrote: Very few people use the uri element in the author block. (I count zero in the currently extant internet-drafts XML files.) Its intended use really is for the author to put in whatever URI

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 18 September 2013 14:04, Tony Hansen t...@att.com wrote: I just re-read your original message to ietf@ietf.org. What I had originally taken as a complaint about getting a way to have a unique id (in this case, an ORCID) for the authors was instead a complaint about getting a unique id for

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 14:30 +0100 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 18 September 2013 14:04, Tony Hansen t...@att.com wrote: I just re-read your original message to ietf@ietf.org. What I had originally taken as a complaint about getting a way to have a unique id

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread John Levine
There are, in the RfC I used as an example, far more acknowledged contributors, than authors. No addresses for those contributors are given. As far as I can tell, nobody else considers that to be a problem. I have written a bunch of books and looked at a lot of bibliographic records, and I have

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/18/2013 8:59 AM, John C Klensin wrote: Andy, we just don't have a tradition of identifying people whose contributed to RFCs with either contact or identification information. It is explicitly possible when Contributors sections are created and people are listed there, but contact or

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/18/13 8:59 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: There have been (counting me) four sitting ADs posting on this 90-email thread, plus another six or so former ADs, including a former IETF chair, plus at least six or so WG chairs, plus other participants of good mind and good hearts. I'm thinking

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 September 2013 00:19, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any real downside to allowing people who have ORCIDs to put them in IETF documents. I'm not sure there's a lot of demand for them (this is the first time it's come up, as far as I know) but I don't see a

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/17/13 3:56 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Thank you. So how might we raise awareness of ORCID among RfC contributors and and encourage its use by them? I'm not sure much needs to be done other than talking with Heather Flanagan (the RFC Editor), getting her sign-off, and then getting it into the

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 September 2013 13:07, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure much needs to be done other than talking with Heather Flanagan (the RFC Editor), getting her sign-off, and then getting it into the xml2rfc schema and noting its existence. Thank you. Is Heather on this list?

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Heather Flanagan can be most easily reached at rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org, the specified email address for reaching the rfc-editor. Note however that you need to be clear as to what you are asking her. If you are asking that she arrange for the tools to include provision for using ORCHIDs, that

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Hector Santos
+1 Thank you for your input. Seems to me to be a conflict of interest issue. I support the basic concept but why not use a IETF registry instead? Solves several of the conflict of interest concerns, including about 3rd party entities disappearing, losing support, etc. -- HLS On 9/17/2013

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. I agree completely with Joel, but let me add a bit more detail and a possible alternative... --On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 08:56 -0400 Joel M. Halpern j...@joelhalpern.com wrote: If you are asking that she arrange for the tools to include provision for using ORCHIDs, that is a

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Richardson
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 support in the tool set and asking for IETF endorsement are two very different

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 11:20 -0400 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:

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread John Levine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Asking for ORCID support in the tool set and asking for IETF endorsement are two very different things. Having tool support for it is a necessary first step to permitting IETF contributors to gain experience with it. We need that experience before

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: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Steve Crocker
I'm in agreement. We have not had any standards so far regarding maintenance of the validity of contact information. For example, my contact information for the April 1, 1995 RFC 1776 is: Steve Crocker CyberCash, Inc. 2086 Hunters Crest Way Vienna, VA 22181 Phone: +1 703

RE: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Pat Thaler
...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 5:57 AM To: Andy Mabbett Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors Heather Flanagan can be most easily reached at rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org, the specified email

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Scott Brim
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Pat Thaler ptha...@broadcom.com wrote: Given this comment in John Levin's post: PS: Now that I think about it, you can already put in a personal URL in rfc2xml, so if someone wants to use an ORCID URL, they can do so right now. it seems like there isn't any

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/17/13 9:55 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: ... and that is my point. One level of indirection might be useful here. I would prefer to update only one mapping and not go through a list of RFCs and change the mapping for each document. I really think that you all are completely over-engineering

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 17, 2013, at 19:37, Michael Tuexen michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de wrote: I was always wondering the authors can't get an @ietf.org address, which is listed in the RFC and is used to forward e-mail to another account. +1. (Remarkably, all the RFCs I co-authored show the same email

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Scott Brim
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Michael Tuexen michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de wrote: I was always wondering the authors can't get an @ietf.org address, which is listed in the RFC and is used to forward e-mail to another account. The email address associated with the draft, for example

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Tuexen
On Sep 17, 2013, at 6:36 PM, Steve Crocker st...@shinkuro.com wrote: I'm in agreement. We have not had any standards so far regarding maintenance of the validity of contact information. For example, my contact information for the April 1, 1995 RFC 1776 is: Steve Crocker CyberCash,

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Tuexen
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 Tuexen michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de wrote: I was always wondering the authors can't get an @ietf.org address, which is listed in the RFC and is used to forward e-mail to another

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Tuexen
On Sep 17, 2013, at 8:19 PM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/17/13 9:55 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: ... and that is my point. One level of indirection might be useful here. I would prefer to update only one mapping and not go through a list of RFCs and change the mapping for

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/17/13 11:14 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: For example http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3237.txt has 7 authors. I know that at least 4 affiliations have changed and at least you can't reach me anymore via the given e-mail address or telephone number. This is not the problem ORCID addresses, except

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Tuexen
On Sep 17, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/17/13 11:14 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: For example http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3237.txt has 7 authors. I know that at least 4 affiliations have changed and at least you can't reach me anymore via the given e-mail

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Tony Hansen
On 9/17/2013 8:07 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: I'm not sure much needs to be done other than talking with Heather Flanagan (the RFC Editor), getting her sign-off, and then getting it into the xml2rfc schema and noting its existence. What would the ORCID reference look like? My understanding is

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: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Juliao Braga
Yes, you can do this using RDFa [1] into HTML tags. If Dr. Krafft had used RDFa so his page: a. Will be a entry point and used as SPARQL[2] queries. This entry point will be found in his contribuition to, or participation in the IETF (e.g. in the Attendance List of the IETF meetings). b. Could be

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Hector Santos
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 Tuexen michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de wrote: I was always wondering the authors can't get an @ietf.org address, which is listed in the

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Hector Santos
On 9/17/2013 3:24 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 9/17/13 11:14 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: For example http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3237.txt has 7 authors. I know that at least 4 affiliations have changed and at least you can't reach me anymore via the given e-mail address or telephone number. This

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Hector Santos
On 9/17/2013 4:52 PM, Yoav Nir 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. Using the same identifier for all these places would be useful, and

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Yoav Nir
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 Tuexen michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de wrote: I was always

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: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread John Levine
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. Using the same identifier for all these places would be useful, and that single identifier is not going to

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,

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread George Michaelson
Currently, IETF standards activity carries little or no weight for an academic career profile. It doesn't appear to have a weighting compared to peer review publication. I think this is a shame, because the contribution is as substantive, if not more so. And, since time is limited and choices have

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Andrew G. Malis
Checking out the ORCID site, I noticed that when manually adding a work, one of the possible external IDs is Request for Comments. So they certainly seem to be aware of the RFC series. The site already has the ability to search various external databases to automate the process of adding works,

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 AM, George Michaelson g...@algebras.org wrote: Currently, IETF standards activity carries little or no weight for an academic career profile. It doesn't appear to have a weighting compared to peer review publication. I think this is a shame, because the contribution

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/16/13 6:49 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: That's not to say you can't put any particular URI against your name in an RFC, mind, but I'd be rather hesitant to leap at mandating a registration procedure for authors. I think it's an interesting idea. It might be worth talking with Heather and

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: This problem is addressed by Open Research Contributor Identifiers (ORCID; http://orcid.org), UIDs (and URIs) for scientific and other academic authors. Mine is below. There are actually IETF participants who

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Juliao Braga
Or perhaps use the FOAF (Friends of A Friend), inaugurating Semantic Web / Linked Data in the IETF. Avoids centralization and imposes no limits on the choice of the information by the interested. JuliĆ£o Em 16/09/2013 11:52, Melinda Shore escreveu: I think it's an interesting idea. It might be

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, September 16, 2013 18:34 +0100 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: If the goal is to include contact info for the authors in the document and in fact you can't be contacted using the info is it contact info? While I didn't say that the goal was to provide contact

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Scott Brim
It's a good idea but I would generalize it. Why have a system just for I*? I would allow people to provide a pointer to their public information in one (or more?) of many places. For example, http://vivo.cornell.edu/display/individual8772 and if necessary we can explore federated identity.

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 September 2013 19:06, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: If the goal is to include contact info for the authors in the document and in fact you can't be contacted using the info is it contact info? While I didn't say that the goal was to provide contact info[*], an individual can

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread David Morris
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Melinda Shore wrote: On 9/16/13 6:49 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: That's not to say you can't put any particular URI against your name in an RFC, mind, but I'd be rather hesitant to leap at mandating a registration procedure for authors. I think it's an interesting

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 17/09/2013 02:39, Andy Mabbett wrote: [First post here] Hello, I'm a contributor to RFC 6350 - but I'm listed there by name only, and there is nothing to differentiate me from some other Andy Mabbett (the problem is no doubt worse for people with less unusual family names). Like many

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/16/13 7:39 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: [First post here] Hello, I'm a contributor to RFC 6350 - but I'm listed there by name only, and there is nothing to differentiate me from some other Andy Mabbett (the problem is no doubt worse for people with less unusual family names). Like many

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 September 2013 17:59, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: I'm a contributor to RFC 6350 - but I'm listed there by name only, and there is nothing to differentiate me from some other Andy Mabbett (the problem is no doubt worse for people with less unusual family names). Like many such

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Yoav Nir
On Sep 16, 2013, at 11:31 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: How do I know that the sender of this message actually has the right to claim the ORCID in question (-0001-5882-6823)? The web page doesn't present anything (such as a public key) that could be used for authentication. I

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 September 2013 21:06, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: How do I know that the sender of this message actually has the right to claim the ORCID in question (-0001-5882-6823)? The web page doesn't present anything (such as a public key) that could be used for

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 September 2013 21:37, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: It is not the purpose of ORCID to provide authentication. I also note that: ORCID uses OAuth to support authentication of the relationship between an individual and an ORCID record. When an individual creates a record,

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 September 2013 19:06, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: Treating an ORCID (or equivalent) as supplemental would also avoid requiring the RSE to inquire about guarantees about the permanence and availability of the relevant database. I've checked with ORCID and they say: the ORCID

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 September 2013 22:02, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: If we use ORCID instead of email No-one has proposed that. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread John Levine
How do I know that the sender of this message actually has the right to claim the ORCID in question (-0001-5882-6823)? The web page doesn't present anything (such as a public key) that could be used for authentication. I dunno. How do we know who brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com is? I can tell

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/16/13 1:02 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: If we use ORCID instead of email, we get less strong authentication. That's not its job - it's there to distinguish between authors with similar names. As I understand the proposal the intent is to have it provide additional information, not supplant

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 17/09/2013 11:19, Melinda Shore wrote: On 9/16/13 1:02 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: If we use ORCID instead of email, we get less strong authentication. That's not its job - it's there to distinguish between authors with similar names. Fair enough, but adding a public key to the record would

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/16/13 3:41 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Fair enough, but adding a public key to the record would enable authentication too. I suppose it was inevitable that when it came into the IETF it would balloon into an overcomplicated mess. Think of it as one metadata element, not a big blob of