We could ask for a RECDESCENT (pseudo)ID on CPAN

I understand that the CPAN team will (rightfully) not give out pseudo-IDs. However, nothing stops individual contributors from putting things into the CPAN, and then some editor maintain a README file as a master index pointing to the other contributions. This is similar to how the scripts portion of the archive goes.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker