On 16 September 2013 19:06, John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)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 do so through their ORCID profile,
which they manage and can update at any time.
The goal of the "author's address" section of the RFCs is
_precisely_ contact information. See, e.g.,
draft-flanagan-style-02 and its predecessors.
I'm sure it is; but nor did I mention the "author's address" section -
I'm credited under "Acknowledgments".
I can see some advantages in including ORCID or some similar
identifier along with the other contact information
[But] I'd consider it useful supplemental
information, not a replacement for the contact information that
is now supposed to be present.
Nor have I argued that it should be.
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. It may be
fine; I'd just like to avoid having to go there.
Even if the ORCID database vanishes (which is highly unlikely) the
existing UIDs will still be unique.
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Andy Mabbett
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