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 licence and their software is not open source. ORCID's - as I've already pointed out - are. > While ORCID does offer an API (another > conflict issue when API changes), Again, the software and data is open. > I think the IETF should offer its own > registry database of contributors. Why reinvent the wheel? Even if done, that would not preclude the use of ORCID. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
