RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-urlreg-procedures-04.txt

"Larry Masinter" <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:52:00 PST
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.url
Message-ID <[email protected]>
IETF has an organization number, and IANA will give you an OID
if you just ask for one.

Larry
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> "OIDs" are assigned by ANSI.  The procedure to obtain one can be found at:
>
> 	http://web.ansi.org/public/services/reg_org.html
>
> Note that ANSI refers to these identifiers as the "numeric form of the
> Organization Name".  They do not use the term "organization ID"
> anywhere.  We may wish to change the prefix accordingly, or may not.
>
> There is a fee of $1,000 per number.  Add your own interpretation as
> to whether this fee will help or simply encourage people to make up
> their own numbers.
>
> Craig
>
>