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Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 04:09:47
I agree with both, but maybe the problem is that people from academia are
not participating enough to report to ADs their concerns (e.g. what is bad
in ietf, or lack of diversity), on the other hand, people from industry are
more organised and don't need/want the academians ideas/participations :-)

AB

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Riccardo Bernardini
<framefritti(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>wrote:

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 AM, George Michaelson 
<ggm(_at_)algebras(_dot_)org>
wrote:
Currently, IETF standards activity carries little or no weight for an
academic career profile. It doesn't appear to have a weighting compared
to
peer review publication. I think this is a shame, because the
contribution
is as substantive, if not more so. And, since time is limited and choices
have to be made, I believe good students/postdocs don't come into our
space
because the payback isn't there compared to submission into the
peer-review
process.

(happy to be corrected. this is a belief, not a proven theory)

I can confirm your theory, at least regarding me.
I come from academia. I came with some enthusiasm, happy to try to get
involved in IETF activities; I subscribed to few WG mailing list, but
after some time I discovered that (unfortunately) the payback for unit
of work was much less than just publishing  scientific paper.  So, I
unhappily unsubscribed from most of the ML and I stay here, lurking in
the background, waiting for some interesting subject...

Too bad.