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Re: getting OID's (fwd)

Steve Kille <S.Kille@isode.com> Thu, 10 November 1994 09:42 UTC

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From: Steve Kille <S.Kille@isode.com>

Jason,

OIDs are simply globally unique numbers, which can be used for any
purpose.  The ISODE Consortium has OIDs assigned by both BSI and IANA.
We use OIDs we have assigned within our branch of the IANA tree for
X.500ish things.


Steve Kille
ISODE Consortium

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