We would like to thank John Maunsell for his effort in getting this effort going and helpful comments on the paper, as well as the many other editors who wrote letters to their authors and the staff at various publishers and many other community projects that wrote blogs and press releases about this initiative. We would also like to thank NIH and INCF for providing the venues and vision for this pilot project, specifically Dr. Jonathan Pollock, who drove the workshop and saw early the need to bring this particular group together around a central goal of better identification of research resources. We would also like to thank ZFIN, who very early on recognized the need for an RRID system and provided inspiration for this project.