Re: Schema group

[Mark Prior <[e-mail]>]

     > >   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 ?

I was not suggesting that they aren't legal, what I was saying is that
IANA is not the only registration authority. I have, and are using,
OIDs that have been created according to the rules documented by my
country ISO authority (Standards Australia).

     In austria we lack an organisation which really administrates OIDs, so we use
     IANA OIDs.
     - Can the IANA OIDs sometime become not globally unique ?

No, I assume IANA has properly registered themselves with whomever
controls the label above them and so they would be 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)

No, what I have been saying is that those of us that have an ISO
member organisation that has its act together should be free to use
those OIDs and not be forced, if we wish to promote something we have
done within the IETF, to change OIDs from our current valid OIDs to
some other valid OID just because the latter comes from IANA.
I also think that changing an OID from one IANA controlled branch to
another one just because something is moving through the IETF
standards process makes little sense either.

     - Or is there any other (easier) way to get a legal OID ?

For you the easiest way to get legal OIDs is to apply to IANA.

Mark.