Registration - Object Identifier Names
The Canadian
Object Identifier arc is registered to the value of 2.16.124. The
nodes are defined as follows:
| 2. |
Joint-ISO-CCITT |
| 16. |
Country |
| 124. |
Canada |
Some components of an Object Identifier (OID) name are defined by
the Canadian Standards Association standard Z243.110.. They are as
follows:
| 1. |
Alberta |
AB |
| 2. |
British
Columbia |
BC |
| 3. |
Manitoba |
MB |
| 4. |
New
Brunswick |
NB |
| 5. |
Newfoundland
and Labrador |
NF |
| 6. |
Northwest
Territories |
NT |
| 7. |
Nova
Scotia |
NS |
| 8. |
Ontario |
ON |
| 9. |
Prince
Edward Island |
PE |
| 10. |
Province
of Quebec/Province du Québec |
QC |
| 11. |
Saskatchewan |
SK |
| 12. |
Yukon |
YK |
| 13. |
Nunavut |
NU |
| 101. |
Government
of Canada/Gouvernement du Canada |
GC |
COSIRA is the registration authority for all organizations other
than those that have been preregistered, but will delegate responsibility
for registering objects below the organization node to the organization
itself;
Canadian Standards Association is the registration authority for
objects under the Canadian Standards Association (100) node.
GORA, the Government of Canada OSI registration authority, is the
registration authority for objects under the Government of Canada/Gouvernement
du Canada (101) node.
COSIRA delegates responsibility for registration of objects immediately
beneath the province and territory nodes to the appropriate provincial
and territorial agencies.
What should be registered?
It is beneficial to register Object Identifiers to identify many
types of hardware, software and protocol elements used in information
technology. For example, one could register application layer protocol
elements, especially user-defined elements, that must be identified
for communications using OSI protocols. Registering such objects
gives them a name that can be used to identify them to the receiver,
and also guarantees that the name will be globally unique. In order
to register such objects an organization must request assignment
and registration of an arc in the COSIRA database. They then have
the delegated authority to create OIDs under their arc.
Examples of application objects that organizations, including international
standards bodies, have identified using object identifiers include:
- system-title - a layer-independent name typically used to identify
the system as a whole or in conjunction with other qualifiers, a
specific OSI object within the system;
- application-process-title - an element within an open system
that embodies the information processing functions of a particular
application such as file transfer/remote terminal access (e.g.:
the implementation of an FTAM/VT program in a particular computer
system);
- abstract syntax name - the portion of the rules used in formal
specification of data that is independent of the encoding technique
used to encode the data;
- transfer syntax name - the rules that specify how the data is
encoded into bit sequences
- managed object - identification of the network objects being
managed by a network management program.
By clicking on "Register" you
will be prompted to fill out TWO forms, General Information
form and OID form.
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