Re: getting OID's (fwd)

Jason Cross <jcross01@eng.eds.com> Wed, 09 November 1994 17:10 UTC

Received: from ietf.nri.reston.va.us by IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa05087; 9 Nov 94 12:10 EST
Received: from CNRI.Reston.VA.US by IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa05083; 9 Nov 94 12:10 EST
Received: from haig.cs.ucl.ac.uk by CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa10061; 9 Nov 94 12:10 EST
Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk by haig.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id <g.01168-0@haig.cs.ucl.ac.uk>; Wed, 9 Nov 1994 16:08:46 +0000
Received: from gmlink.gmeds.com by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with Internet SMTP id <g.26493-0@bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk>; Wed, 9 Nov 1994 16:08:00 +0000
Received: from earth (earth.troy.eng.eds.com) by gmlink.gmeds.com with SMTP id AA21145 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 1.1 for <osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk>); Wed, 9 Nov 1994 11:01:58 -0500
Message-Id: <199411091601.AA21145@gmlink.gmeds.com>
Received: from majorca (majorca.troy.eng.eds.com) by earth (4.1/AE-1.0) id AA08711; Wed, 9 Nov 94 10:56:55 EST
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 10:58:04 -0500
Sender: ietf-archive-request@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US
From: Jason Cross <jcross01@eng.eds.com>
Subject: Re: getting OID's (fwd)
To: barns@cove.mitre.org
Cc: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk, barns@cove.mitre.org
In-Reply-To: <9411082115.AA22684@cove.mitre.org.mitre.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII"

In regard to this discussion, I would take from it that an org.
would go to ANSI to get an official OID for X.500, while using 
iana for SNMP?


ciao,
Jason Cross <jcross01@eng.eds.com>
EDS      
Troy, Mi.

On Tue, 8 Nov 1994 barns@cove.mitre.org wrote:

> As far as I know, SGMP/SNMP is the only purpose for which IANA has
> consciously given out OIDs.  Nothing says they can't do it for
> any other usage if they want to, but I can't identify any documented
> instance (e.g., in RFC 1340) where they have done so.  So I guess you
> could ask for anything, but in fairness/honesty anyone who does so
> should make it clear what they are doing.
> 
> /Bill Barns
>