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 idea. It might be worth talking
> with Heather and with whoever maintains the xml2rfc schema
> about whether or not we can or should experiment with adding
> an ORCID element to the name element.
I don't see a need to mandate providing an ORCID or other identifier,
but I can't see a reason not to support inclusion of such an
identifier at the contributor's option.
