Re: ASN.1 Does Global OBJECT IDENTIFIER Directory Exist?

From: Olivier Dubuisson (asn1_at_rd.francetelecom.com)
Date: 09/29/03


Date: 29 Sep 2003 07:09:44 -0700


"Steven J. Hathaway" <shathawa@e-z.net> wrote in message news:<3F773F36.E4EA207E@e-z.net>...
> Is there a global database of ASN.1 registered OBJECT IDENTIFIERS?

By definition, each node at any level of the tree can be a
registrattion authority that hold its own registry for its subsequent
nodes. Thus the "theoretical" answer is no :)
But there is a repository that gathers 53,000 descriptions of OIDs
freely available at: http://oid.elibel.tm.fr
All OIDs defined in all ITU-T Recommendations and all IETF RFCs (as
well as a lot of others!) were entered in the repository.

> Some specifications (i.e. X.509 Certificates) SubjectPublicKeyInfo
> specify "parameters" of type ANY DEFINED BY algorithm OPTIONAL, where
> "algorithm" is a value of type OBJECT IDENTIFIER.
>
> Are there any X.500 directories, related database agents, that
> can be used to help resolve PDUs and other structures that are
> referenced by OBJECT IDENTIFER values?

It could be easy to implement a web service that queries our
repository, but this is not planned for the near future.

Olivier Dubuisson



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