On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 9/16/13 6:49 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > > 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. > > I think it's an interesting idea. It might be worth talking > with Heather and with whoever maintains the xml2rfc schema > about whether or not we can or should experiment with adding > an ORCID element to the name element. I don't see a need to mandate providing an ORCID or other identifier, but I can't see a reason not to support inclusion of such an identifier at the contributor's option.