barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (02/01/90)
It's hard to prove a negative, but I have to believe the answer is No. The logical places under the object identifier tree do not have registration authorities solidified yet. It's hard to figure what the best place for it is, but it seems like it would have to be under an ICD or under a US construct. NIST OIW seems like an improbable home, which leaves ICD 5 or 6 as plausible candidates, and registration procedures there are not yet firmed up (although I think it's getting close). ANSI registration of Organizations (under country code US=840) also ought to be pretty close, but not quite there, unless something happened within the last few weeks. I wonder whether the IAB is capable of coming up with the $$$ to get an ANSI Org ID of their own. That approach would circumvent the politics of getting some part of the government to register it. There are unofficial but generally used object identifiers for TCP/IP MIB objects as defined in RFC 1066. I don't think this is what you were really asking for, but you could check it out anyway. There is no adopted mechanism for defining things "officially" under ICD 6 but the MIB people needed something and plunged on anyway. /Bill Barns
karl@asylum.sf.ca.us (Karl Auerbach) (02/02/90)
> There are unofficial but generally used object identifiers for TCP/IP > MIB objects as defined in RFC 1066. I believe that the internet MIB object identifiers (including the enterprise subtree) are assigned by a legitimate chain of naming authorities descending from ISO. Consequently, these are as "official" and valid as any you could get from ANSI or any other body. The system is in place now. And there is no charge to get a number. --karl--