Multiple textual identifiers for one OID

Hi,

I always thought that for each OID there can only be one textual
identifier. Now I came across this FAQ:
http://www.oid-info.com/faq.htm#iri
Under question 28 the following is written:

Just as an OID node can have multiple identifiers in ASN.1 notation,
it can have multiple Unicode labels (this allows
backwards-compatibility when a company changes its name, for example).

If I understand that right it means that an OID could have multiple
textual identifiers?
E.g.:
iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.99999 is defined in
COMPANY-MIB-1 as companName  and
iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.99999 is defined in
COMPANY-MIB-2 as newCompanName

The two MIBs could then be loaded at the same time without causing any
clashes, and a walk on
iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.companName   and
iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.newCompanName
would return the same results?
Would IANA need to be notified about the change of the textual
identifier (in case of an enterprise OID)?

I have created two MIBs as in the example above and with net-snmp I
can use either textual OID for a walk without any problems. I have
also tested the MIB with smilint while preloading the second MIB and
no errors were returned.

So are multiple identifiers allowed for one OID?

Thanks in advance,

Holger

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