- From: Mitra <mitra@path.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:26:51 -0800
- To: Michael.Mealling@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
- Cc: pierre@indirect.com, uri@bunyip.com
At 1:08 PM 3/28/95, Michael Mealling wrote: >Mitra said this: >> At 3:15 PM 3/27/95, Pierre Landau wrote: >> >3) Using the hierarchical DNS scheme for registering publishers works well >> >with departments at universities, but perhaps less well with a >>publisher like >> >joe@orion.tucson.az.us. Perhaps the Library of Congress or a similar >> >entity is a more appropriate "authority" to register publishers with. >> >> Under my scheme it works fine, orion.tucson.az.us registers >> joe.orion.tucson.az.us, I've no idea how it would work under any of the >> currently proposed schemes. > >You get this also by using OIDs. For example, 1.3.6.4.636 is our pointer >into the OID space. (I just found this out by enterprize numbers (aka the >old URN method are actual pointers to OID space starting with 1.3.6.4). >Since I (gatech) own 636 I can allocate below that willy nilly. >I could create 1.3.6.4.636.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1 if I wanted >to. > >It also does not suffer any of the legal problems being discussed on the >IETF list since a) they have zero semantic meaning b) they are 'owned' by >a recongnized international standards body..... Unfortunately Enterprise numbers are not a scalable address space, unless IANA want to be registering several million enterprises. - Mitra ======================================================================= Mitra mitra@path.net Internet Consulting (415)488-0944 <http://www.path.net/mitra> fax (415)488-0988
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