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Re: OID! what for?

To: Rick Francis <rfrancis@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: OID! what for?
From: Adam Williams6 <awilliam@whitemice.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:10:34 -0500 (EST)
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <LOBBLOHAADDMOPOIIHPCCEOKJJAA.rfrancis@mindspring.com>

>do i have to register an OID?

Yes.

>or is it automatic, somehow?

You can do it, for free, on the IANA site.

>or only if i plan on sharing my directory with someone else?

WHat you don't intend to do today you'll have to do tomorrow.

>what's the drawbacks of NOT registering OIDs?

You DSA becomes non-interoperable with any other DSA.  Why bother when an 
OID is free.

And assuming standard don't apply to them is something a certain software 
company does,  and I haven't heard anyone express ecstatic love for them 
recently.

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