On 9/16/13 1:02 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: > If we use ORCID instead of email, we get less strong authentication. That's not its job - it's there to distinguish between authors with similar names. As I understand the proposal the intent is to have it provide additional information, not supplant anything. There is currently no identifier that provides that kind of discrimination. I don't see any real downside to allowing people who have ORCIDs to put them in IETF documents. I'm not sure there's a lot of demand for them (this is the first time it's come up, as far as I know) but I don't see a problem with plopping one more piece of information - one that has a unique function - into our docs. Melinda