Re: getting oids

[Peter Furniss <[e-mail]>]

> 
> >      The "official" way in which anyone in the world is supposed to get an
> >      oid prefix is via their national standards body (supra-national
> >      organisations are an open question). It cannot be expected that all
> 
> How could you advise a poor soul like me who has gone calling 10 different
> organizations in Poland being sent from one to another and finally closing
> the circle?. Is there a body in Europe that could tell me if the is a
> national organization responsible for OIDs in Poland and if not could
> provide me with a prefix? We are currently using some nomber that I have
> invented but that is not terribly healthy of course.

My phrase "it cannot be expected" was because of such. According to
the Standards_FAQ (on comp.std.misc, amongst others), the Polish ISO
member is

Poland/Pologne (PKNMIJ)
*Polish Committee for
Standardization,
Measures and Quality Control
UI. Elektoralna 2
00-139 WARSZAWA
TP [phone]
TF [phone]
TX 81 36 42 pkn pl
TG pekanim

Which means the oid {iso(1) memberbody(2) poland(616) }
is assigned to PKNMIJ, for them to use as prefix of further assignements.

However, Poland does not appear to be a member of JTC1 (the ISO/IEC
committee that covers IT standards), so they may not be aware of the
expectations of ISO/IEC 9834-1, which is the registration standard.
(The same standard is also concerned with the top of the Directory
naming tree too).

ISO in Geneva would know the current position, but I don't think they
expect to provide a "registry of last resort" for countries whose
standards bodies are not active in this area.

Which is why extending the IANA registration would have advantages.

Peter
ps: I will pass the question to the editor of 9834-1, to see if he has
any suggestions 

pps: iso's address is (also taken from standards_faq)


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