Currently, IETF standards activity carries little or no weight for an academic career profile. It doesn't appear to have a weighting compared to peer review publication. I think this is a shame, because the contribution is as substantive, if not more so. And, since time is limited and choices have to be made, I believe good students/postdocs don't come into our space because the payback isn't there compared to submission into the peer-review process.
(happy to be corrected. this is a belief, not a proven theory)
On that basis, things we do which make it easier for academic and research assessment processes for STEM careers to consider our work as 'worthy' are good and useful, because they help to direct skilled new brains into our zombie pool.
I think ORCID would be the kind of thing which helps.
-G
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:08 AM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Having an IETF identity is OK if all you ever publish is in the IETF. Some of ourIf you want Yahoo mail or gmail or pobox.com, you know where to find it.
>participants also publish at other SDOs such as IEEE, W3C, ITU, and quite a few publish
>Academic papers. Using the same identifier for all these places would be useful, and
>that single identifier is not going to be an @ietf.org email address.
Or people here are, I expect, mostly able to arrange for their own
vanity domains.
R's,
John, abuse@xxxxxxxx