OID URN namespace....

Just as a point of information:

I've recently submitted an Internet-Draft:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-oid-urn-00.txt
which is the first step in registering a URN namespace for OIDs.
I have one more edit pass and it should be registered officially.
Which means you can start using things of the form:
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.x.whatever

where 'x' is your 'enterprise-number' which is registerd with
the IANA and can be found at:
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers

Odds are, if you're sufficiently large, you probably already have one.
If not, they're easy to get by filling out this form:
http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/enterprise.pl

Important note: this URN namespace is not currently intended to be
resolvable since no one maintains a single database of all OIDs.
One may come into being in the future but nothing says you have
to use it or even insert your OIDs into it...

-MM

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Received on Friday, 9 June 2000 10:38:59 UTC