Registration Authorities
for OID components

Protocols need to carry names!

Historical contributions to the naming problem

Hierarchical v Central

Character versus binary naming

ASN.1 grasped the nettle

Notation for OID values – human-readable

X.400 and X.500

Navigating the tree

Moving to the Web

ASN.1 Project and ITU-T support

Enough of history and futures – what of the NOW?

What are these Recommendations?
(Yuck, he's getting serious – time to walk out to my main meeting!)

General contents

X.660 (ISO/IEC 9834-1)

No X.661 (ISO/IEC 9834-2)

X.662 (ISO/IEC 9834-3)

No X.663 (ISO/IEC 9834-4)

No X.664 (ISO/IEC 9834-5)

X.665 (ISO/IEC 9834-6)

X.666 (ISO/IEC 9834-7)

X.667 (ISO/IEC 9834-8)

Wow! A second slide!

And a third!

Not X.668 (Not ISO/IEC 9834-9)

X.669

X.670

X.671

If you have lasted this far, you have been very patient