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Global Naming

The root node has three subordinates:
 
ccitt(0)
which is administered by CCITT, nowadays known simply by its parent body's name, ITU...
iso(1)
administered by ISO/IEC, and the branch of the tree of most interest.
joint-iso-ccitt(2)
jointly adminstered by ISO and CCITT.
ISO/IEC in turn defines four subordinates:
standard(0)
which has a subordinate tree for every ISO standard(!)
registration-authority(1)
defines OSI name registration authorities.
member-body(2)
the members (countries) which form the ISO.
identified-organisation(3)
allocated by ISO/IEC as it sees fit. The US Govt. DoD, the original sponsoring organisation for the TCP/IP protocol suite and the Internet is a subordinate of this node. The Internet, in turn, is node 1 within DoD.

 


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