Re: OID numbers

Einar Stefferud <Stef@nma.com> Wed, 07 October 1992 23:05 UTC

To: Doug Rosenthal <rosenthl@mcc.com>
cc: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk, wpp-camayocs@psi.com
Subject: Re: OID numbers
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 07 Oct 1992 13:01:54 -0500. <9210071801.AA20173@faith.mcc.com>
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From: Einar Stefferud <Stef@nma.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 13:40:00 -0700
Message-ID: <9640.718490400@nma.com>

First, an OID is an OID, and all are part of the ISO/CCITT OID tree,
so it really does not matter at all.

See (ISO 9834-1|CCITT X.660) if you want some gory details.

You can get an OID from ANSI under { 1 2 840 } for $1000.
Maybe MCC has already done so?

This ANSI OID is a little shorter, for whatever that is worth.

You should not however, renmber anything unless you take away all
instances of the old values, else every implementation that deals with
either the old or the new must always be prepared to deal with either
in all implementations.

Cheers...\Stef

OID numbers Doug Rosenthal
Re: OID numbers Einar Stefferud