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On Friday 28 February 2003 20:59, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. It's clearly time to give up on IANA if > it's merely part of the ICANN catastrophe. That doesn't mean giving up > on registration more generally, however - it means giving up on > registration until such time as an accountable registrar comes into > existence. Perhaps ICANN's sheer corruption will lead to such a thing > eventually. Also, IANA is not the only way of getting OIDs. They just run a bit of the OID space, like local DNS registries run their ccTLDs. My OID ain't IANA :-) It's under this subtree: http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.2.826.0.1.html The neat thing is that every UK limited company automatically gets an OID (and thus the ability to create OIDs in the subtree beneath it, DNS style) under there; they're just importing another registry rather than needing to create a new one. In fact, the IANA OID space isn't even *legal*. There was an OID subtree assigned to the DOD that they weren't using, so the IANA decided that the DOD probably wouldn't mind them assigning it to the IANA: http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.6.1.html Anyway... you should be able to get OIDs under 1.2 assigned by your local ISO member body. OIDs don't depend on delegation like DNS does. I can declare that some OID under mine can be used to generate other OIDs by appending an international phone number of a phone they own, or run a server that generates auto-incrementing numbers whenever people ask for one. And then I can't stop people using those OIDs; they are numeric and beyond trademark law, and it's not delegated with servers like DNS so there's nothing I can turn off. The worst I can do is to try to cause collisions by assigning those OIDs to other purposes. I like this property. ABS -- Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place, Yellow desert screen
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