On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Pat Thaler <pthaler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Given this comment in John Levin's post: " PS: Now that I think about it, you can already put in a personal URL > in rfc2xml, so if someone wants to use an ORCID URL, they can do so > right now." it seems like there isn't any need to change the schema. +1. Those who are concerned about name collisions can add a pointer to any sort of additional information.