Re: Private OID range(s) ?

[Michael StrÃder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Nick Milas wrote:
> I was wondering whether there exists - officially or unofficially - a range of
> private OIDs which can be used internally (privately) in an organization, and
> is not allowed for schema distribution; something like private network IP
> address ranges (10.0.0.0/8, etc.)

No.

> The existence of such private OIDs would allow organizations to avoid
> registering their own OID branch, since the "private" OID range would
> guarrantee that these OIDs can be used internally by the organization safely
> and would not be included in a new schema distribution; thus, conflicts can be
> excluded.

I don't see how this avoids conflicts.

IANA gives away enterprise-IDs for free. There's no reason why not to register 
one.

> Any organization which would be using such a "private OID range",
> should not be allowed to make the associated LDAP attributes publicly
> available (not even searchable) in its Directory interations.

Maybe you should try to provide a good definition on what is "publicly 
available" and I will tear it to pieces. ;-}

Did you ever participate in a company merger where both companies are using 
the private network IP address ranges (10.0.0.0/8)?

> Secondarily, the above would also serve as an "example" range of OIDs which
> could be used for communication of schema drafts.

You can safely define your own example OID branch for whatever you need it.

> I haven't come across something like this until now.

And that's good!

Ciao, Michael.