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A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers

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Network Working Group                                        M. Mealling
Request for Comments: 3001                       Network Solutions, Inc.
Category: Informational                                    November 2000


                 A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes a Uniform Resource Names (URN) namespace that
   contains Object Identifiers (OIDs).

1. Introduction

   An Object Identifier is a series of digits delimited in some way.
   The rules roughly state that once an entity is assigned an Object
   Identifier (OID) it has sole discretion to further subdelegate off of
   that OID.  Some examples of OIDs include:

   o  1.3.6.1 - the Internet OID
   o  1.3.6.1.4.1 - IANA-assigned company OIDs, used for private MIBs
      and such things
   o  1.3.6.1.2.1.27 - The Applications MIB
   o  0.9.2342.19200300.100.4 - Object ID's used in the directory pilot
      project to identify X.500 Object Classes.  Mostly defined in RFC-
      1274.

   This document specifies the "oid" URN namespace [1].  This namespace
   is for encoding an Object Identifier as specified in ASN.1 [2] as a
   URI.

   The namespace specification is for a formal namespace.

2. Specification Template

   Namespace ID:

      "oid" requested.



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