Re: Schema group

[Russ Wright <[e-mail]>]

At 11:27 AM 1/2/95, Michael Gsandtner wrote:
>> >   I think is exactly the mechanism that the people at the
>> >   meeting
>> >   _didn't_ want. It seemed to me the concensus was that
>> >   once an OID had been chosen for something then as long
>> >   as it was legal (ie it didn't have to be an IANA blessed
>> >   OID) then it was fixed. I am using perfectly valid
>> >   Standards Australia OIDs and I'm not about to change
>> >   them just to get some sanction from the IETF process.
>>
>Why are the IANA OIDs not legal ?

IANA OIDs are legal.  A number of organizations got an organizational OID
from IANA and are using it for X.500 attributes and object classes (LBL and
the University of Michigan are two of them).


>In austria we lack an organisation which really administrates OIDs, so we use
>IANA OIDs.
>- Can the IANA OIDs sometime become not globally unique ?
>- Have I really to persuade VNORM (austrian ISO memberbody) that it have to
>  give us an OID ? (which will take quite a long time)
>- Or is there any other (easier) way to get a legal OID ?
>

If IANA is willing to give them out, that would seem to be an easy way to
get an OID.

Russ