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Improve ORCID author identifier support - Deprecate the local arXiv author ids in favor or ORCID iDs throughout the arXiv user interface, add ORCID iDs to arXiv API.
Use HTTPS for all communicationof web interface - The web is rapidly moving toward secure communication (using HTTPS, HTTP over SSL) and all arXiv accesses occur over HTTPS. All existing HTTP URIs should still resolve but they should do this via a redirect to the equivalent HTTPS URI.
Refine process for addition of overlap notices - Following the September 2016 recommendation of the Scientific Advisory Board, we will implement a process to put submissions on-hold when overlap with other articles is detected by Paul Ginsparg's system. This will provide authors an opportunity to respond to warnings before overlap notices are added.
Consolidate web presence at the main site - The arXiv mirror network was very useful in the early days of arXiv and web. However, geographic locality of servers is much less useful now than it was when the mirror network was established, the mirrors a little used, and maintaining support for mirrors impedes development of new features on arXiv. We will discontinue the remaining six arXiv mirrors and improve capacity of the main site network. A presence at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be retained to support http://xxx.lanl.gov/ URIs and we will investigate support for TeX processing for A4 paper.
Subject category aliasing for cs/math/stat - There are three subject category merges (aliases) requested in order to better represent subject areas that span major discipline boundaries. Some of these require extra work because there are pre-0704 (old identifiers, see http://arxiv.org/help/arxiv_identifier) submissions where the primary category is becoming an alias and thus the historical primary archive to identifier prefix correspondence will be broken. In the past aliases have been made on an ad-hoc basis and without the need to change existing primary archive designations. We should instead work out and document procedures for such changes. Includes work to create tools for the bulk re-categorization of submissions affected by this and later merges.
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