Names are awful identifiers, considering how they are misshapen by stylistic rules (case folding, reordering, abbreviation, transliteration, etc.) and how many

Names are awful identifiers, considering how they are misshapen by stylistic rules (case folding, reordering, abbreviation, transliteration, etc.) and how many collisions there are. I really hope some generalised system (ORCID?) finds as wide of adoption as DOI did.