OBJECT IDENTIFIER
data type. An
OBJECT IDENTIFIER
is a
simple ASN.1 data type with special
properties.OBJECT IDENTIFIER
is a data type denoting
an authoritatively named object, regardless of the
type of the object which it names. The (somewhat
hubristic) notion here is that provides a naming
scheme allowing us to specify names of
things, in a global sense, such that everything that
there is in the universe[2] can
have a globally-unique name.Object Descriptor
associated with it). The most common format for writing down the
value of an OBJECT IDENTIFIER
is as a dotted
sequence, thus:
This identifies the object found by starting at the root, moving to the node with label 1, then moving to the node with label 0, and so on. The node found after traversing this list is the one being identified. Other formats for describing OBJECT IDENTIFIERS are also used, see later.1.0.8571.5.1
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