jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) (03/13/91)
Here's my silly question of the day: If I wanted to use some
object identifier for a private MIB of my own, who would I
ask to be apportioned a branch of the tree?
I'm involved in a couple of project that would like to use
ASN.1 encoding, and we're having fun trying to learn how you
go about doing that. One problem is that I'd like to make
up a set of small examples for teaching purposes, and the
examples shouldn't use someone else's MIB variables. It
seems what we need is one or more portions of the address
tree that are called object identifiers. Various docs have
examples of them, including several variants of SNMP, CMIP,
etc. Can someone summarize how this address space is apportioned?
One possibility is that we could go to the SNMP people and ask
to use a branch off their tree. This might work, because we
are building SNMP agents, anong other things. But then again,
they might react to our request by saying that it has absolutely
nothing to do with SNMP, and we should ask somewhere else.
It looks like there is probably a tree of authorities, with ISO
at the root, assorted mysterious international and national agencies
at the next levels, maybe a few companies dangling from branches,
and so on. So if I or some other gang of hackers wanted to hang
their own personal ornament on the tree, where would we go to get
permission?
Responses will probably all end up in a doc for a course...
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