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Please note that the use of this illegal OID should be avoided in any new document and/or standard.
According to http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk/staff/.../appendixa.htm: The University College of London, which engineered the Directory implementation known as Quipu (Robbins and Kille, 1991; Kille, 1989), did not have an object identifier allocated to it as an organisation way back in 1988. It was likely to be several years before there would be a national or international mechanism for obtaining one. During the course of the implementation, the software producers found that it was necessary to define new object classes and attribute types that did not exist in the Standard. But these definitions required the allocation of object identifiers, which they did not have. However, the authors were resourceful enough to realise that their 12 digit X.25 Packet Switch Stream number (234219200300) was globally unique. 2342 was the DNIC for British Telecom's PSS, and 19200300 was the PNIC for UCL. UCL could allocate a two digit local qualifier (they chose 99) to uniquely identify the Quipu implementation attached to that PSS port. But how could this be converted into an object identifier? Steve Kille spoke to an employee from a UK telecom's company, who suggested that arc 9 under CCITT could safely be used for private data, since it was unlikely that CCITT would ever use it. This produced an OID of 0 9 2342 19200300 99 for the Quipu implementation. UCL then allocated OIDs to all their newly defined Quipu objects, based upon this stub. Now most of the DSAs in existence are happily passing around UCL's PSS number as a valid component of the object identifiers that they use every day. In fact the OID is completely illegal, since arc 9 under CCITT does not officially exist!
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