On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This problem is addressed by "Open Research Contributor Identifiers"
(ORCID; <http://orcid.org>), UIDs (and URIs) for scientific and other
academic authors. Mine is below.
There are actually IETF participants who share a name - all poor comments and suggestions are actually that other Dave Cridland of course - but it's not clear that this is a problem requiring a centralised registration which isn't even centralised under the auspices of either the IETF or ISoc.
That's not to say you can't put any particular URI against your name in an RFC, mind, but I'd be rather hesitant to leap at mandating a registration procedure for authors.
Dave.