On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:24 PM, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
> >* The purpose of ORCID is to /uniquely/ identify individuals, both to > >differentiate between people with similar names, and to unify works > >where the author uses variant or changed names > > If you think that's a good idea, I don't see any reason to forbid > people from including an ORCID along with the real contact info, but I > would be extremely unhappy if the IETF were to mandate it or anything > like it. > > My name turns out to be fairly common. Over the years, I have been > confused with a comp sci professor in Edinburgh, a psychology > professor in Pittsburgh, another comp sci researcher in Georgia, a > psychiatrist in Cambridge MA, a composer in Cambridge UK, a car buyer > in Phoenix, and some random guy in Brooklyn, all of whom happen to be > named John Levine. Tough. Not my problem. > > I also think that it's time for people to get over the "someone might > spam me so I'm going to hide" nonsense. The point of putting contact > info in an RFC is so that people can contact you, and the most > ubiquitous contact identifiers we have remain e-mail addresses. I > still use the same e-mail address I've had since 1993 (the one in the > signature below), and my garden variety spam filters are quite able to > keep it usable. If I can do it, so can you. > +1 I discovered the ambiguity problem 30 years ago and began using the full version of my family name to ensure uniqueness. Since this has turned out to be ambiguous, I have decided to instead use a SHA-256 hash of my DNA sequence: 9f00a4-9d1379-002a03-007184-905f6f-796534-06f9da-304b11-0f88d7-92192e-98b2 -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
