>* 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 If you think that's a good idea, I don't see any reason to forbid people from including an ORCID along with the real contact info, but I would be extremely unhappy if the IETF were to mandate it or anything like it. My name turns out to be fairly common. Over the years, I have been confused with a comp sci professor in Edinburgh, a psychology professor in Pittsburgh, another comp sci researcher in Georgia, a psychiatrist in Cambridge MA, a composer in Cambridge UK, a car buyer in Phoenix, and some random guy in Brooklyn, all of whom happen to be named John Levine. Tough. Not my problem. I also think that it's time for people to get over the "someone might spam me so I'm going to hide" nonsense. The point of putting contact info in an RFC is so that people can contact you, and the most ubiquitous contact identifiers we have remain e-mail addresses. I still use the same e-mail address I've had since 1993 (the one in the signature below), and my garden variety spam filters are quite able to keep it usable. If I can do it, so can you. Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly