On 16 September 2013 17:59, joel jaeggli <joelja(_at_)bogus(_dot_)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 contributors, I don't want to publish my email address
as an identifier, in case I get spammed, and if I give an affiliation
or even the URL of my website, that may change over time.
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 do so through their ORCID profile, which they manage
and can update at any time.
* 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 - say Jim Smith, James
Smith and J. H. Smith for one author, or authors who change their name
on marriage, divorce, change of religion or whatever.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk