ASN.1consortium
Notation for OID values – human-readable
nEarly notation for OID values (allocations) looked like:
n        {iso standard 8571 etc}
nSNMP started the rot:  use simply a character representation of the encoding:  1.0.8571.etc for human consumption.
nThe change from "ccitt" to "itu-t" in
"joint-iso-ccitt" also caused problems.
nThe numeric form is now accepted as valid notation.
nNames are now regarded as not normative.