On 9/17/13 11:14 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: > For example > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3237.txt > has 7 authors. I know that at least 4 affiliations have changed > and at least you can't reach me anymore via the given e-mail > address or telephone number. This is not the problem ORCID addresses, except indirectly. It's a way to establish that the author Melinda Shore who worked at Cisco is the same author Melinda Shore who worked at the Center for Research Libraries. It is NOT a contact mechanism, a personal tracking mechanism, etc. Melinda