Network Working Group M. Mealling
Request for Comments: 3061 Verisign
Category: Informational February 2001
Obsoletes: 3001
A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers
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Abstract
This document describes a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace that
contains Object Identifiers (OIDs). It obsoletes RFC 3001.
1. Introduction
An Object Identifier is a tree of nodes where each node is simply a
sequence of digits. The rules roughly state that once an entity is
assigned a node in the Object Identifier (OID) tree, it has sole
discretion to further subdelegate sub-trees off of that node. 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 [2]. This namespace
is for encoding an Object Identifier as specified in ASN.1 [3] as a
URI. RFC 3001 [1] is obsoleted by this specification.
The namespace specification is for a formal namespace.
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