ISO/IEC 9834-1:2012

Information technology — Procedures for the operation of object identifier registration authorities — Part 1: General procedures and top arcs of the international object identifier tree

ISO/IEC 9834-1:2012: specifies a tree structure for allocations made by a hierarchical structure of Registration Authorities, called the international object identifier (OID) tree, which supports the ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER type and the ASN.1 OID-IRI type (ISO/IEC 8824-1); registers top-level arcs of the international OID tree; specifies procedures which are generally applicable to registration at any level of the international OID tree; provides guidelines for the establishment and operation of International Registration Authorities for use, when needed, by other ITU-T Recommendations and/or International Standards; provides guidelines for additional ITU-T Recommendations and/or International Standards which choose to reference the procedures in ISO/IEC 9834-1:2012; provides a recommended fee structure for lower-level Registration Authorities. Information about registration for specific objects is contained in separate ITU-T Recommendations and/or International Standards. ISO/IEC 9834-1:2012 applies to registration by ITU-T Recommendations and/or International Standards, by International Registration Authorities, and by any other Registration Authority.

Technologies de l'information — Procédures opérationnelles pour les organismes d'enregistrement d'identificateur d'objet — Partie 1: Procédures générales et arcs sommitaux de l'arborescence des identificateurs d'objet internationale

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 10-May-2012
• ICS: 35.100.01 - Open systems interconnection in general
• Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
• Current Stage: 9060 - Close of review
• Start Date: 03-Mar-2028

Relations

• Revises: ISO/IEC 9834-1:2008 - Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — Procedures for the operation of OSI Registration Authorities: General procedures and top arcs of the International Object Identifier tree — Part 1:
• Effective Date: 15-Jan-2011

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 9834-1
Fourth edition
2012-05-15
Information technology — Procedures for
the operation of object identifier
registration authorities: General
procedures and top arcs of the
international object identifier tree
Technologies de l'information — Procédures opérationnelles pour les
organismes d'enregistrement d'identificateur d'objet: Procédures
générales et arcs sommitaux de l'arborescence des identificateurs
d'objet internationale
Reference number
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CONTENTS
Page
1 Scope . 1

2 Normative references. 1

2.1 Identical Recommendations | International Standards . 1
2.2 Paired Recommendations | International Standards equivalent in technical content . 1

2.3 Additional references . 1
3 Definitions . 2

3.1 Organization definition . 2
3.2 ASN.1 terms . 2

3.3 Directory terms. 2
3.4 Unicode terms . 2
3.5 Additional definitions . 2

4 Abbreviations . 4
5 Notation . 5

6 Registration . 5

6.1 Overview . 5
6.2 Management of the OID tree . 5

6.3 Operation . 6
7 International OID tree. 6

8 International Registration Authorities . 8

8.1 Requirement for an International Registration Authority . 8
8.2 Operation of International Registration Authorities . 8

8.3 Sponsoring Authorities . 9
9 Contents of registration procedures for objects of a particular type . 9

10 Progression of registration procedures for objects of a particular type . 10

11 Recommended fee structure . 11
Annex A – Top-level arcs of the OID tree . 12

A.1 General . 12
A.2 Assignment of primary integer values, Unicode labels and secondary identifiers to root arcs . 12
A.3 Assignment of primary integer values, Unicode labels and secondary identifiers to arcs

administered by ITU-T . 12
A.4 Assignment of primary integer values, Unicode labels and secondary identifiers to arcs

administered by ISO . 14
A.5 Assignment of OID components jointly administered by ISO and ITU-T . 16

A.6 Assignment of additional Unicode labels and secondary identifiers to the root arcs . 17
A.7 Assignment of additional Unicode labels from the root to lower-level arcs (long arcs) . 18

A.8 Publication of register entries requiring joint ITU-T and ISO approval . 19
Annex B – References to this Recommendation | International Standard . 20

Annex C – Registration-hierarchical-name-tree . 22

C.1 Introduction . 22
C.2 Definitions . 22

C.3 Abbreviations . 22
C.4 Generic RH-name-tree . 22

Bibliography . 24

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Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical

Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of
ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees

established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC
technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental

and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information
technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.

International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

The main task of the joint technical committee is to prepare International Standards. Draft International
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an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting a vote.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

ISO/IEC 9834-1 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 6, Telecommunications and information exchange between systems, in collaboration with
ITU-T. The identical text is published as Rec. ITU-T X.660 (07/2011).

This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition (ISO/IEC 9834-1:2008), which has been technically

revised.
ISO/IEC 9834 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology — Procedures for
the operation of object identifier registration authorities:

 Part 1: General procedures and top arcs of the international object identifier tree
 Part 2: Registration procedures for OSI document types
 Part 3: Registration of Object Identifier arcs beneath the top-level arc jointly administered by ISO and
ITU-T
 Part 4: Register of VTE Profiles
 Part 5: Register of VT Control Object Definitions
 Part 6: Registration of application processes and application entities
 Part 7: Joint ISO and ITU-T Registration of International Organizations
 Part 8: Generation and registration of Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) and their use as ASN.1
Object Identifier components
 Part 9: Registration of object identifier arcs for applications and services using tag-based identification

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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD
RECOMMENDATION ITU-T
Information technology – Procedures for the operation
of object identifier registration authorities: General procedures
and top arcs of the international object identifier tree
1 Scope
This Recommendation | International Standard:
a) specifies a tree structure for allocations made by a hierarchical structure of Registration Authorities,
called the international OID tree, which supports the ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER type and the ASN.1
OID-IRI type (see Rec. ITU-T X.680 | ISO/IEC 8824-1);
b) registers top-level arcs of the international object identifier tree;
c) specifies procedures which are generally applicable to registration at any level of the international OID
tree;
d) provides guidelines for the establishment and operation of International Registration Authorities for use,
when needed, by other ITU-T Recommendations and/or International Standards;
e) provides guidelines for additional ITU-T Recommendations and/or International Standards which choose
to reference the procedures in this Recommendation | International Standard;
f) provides a recommended fee structure for lower-level Registration Authorities.
NOTE – Information about registration for specific objects is contained in separate ITU-T Recommendations and/or International
Standards.
This Recommendation | International Standard applies to registration by ITU-T Recommendations and/or International
Standards, by International Registration Authorities (see clause 8), and by any other Registration Authority.
2 Normative references
The following Recommendations and International Standards contain provisions which, through reference in this text,
constitute provisions of this Recommendation | International Standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated
were valid. All Recommendations and Standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this
Recommendation | International Standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent
edition of the Recommendations and Standards listed below. Members of IEC and ISO maintain registers of currently
valid International Standards. The Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the ITU maintains a list of currently
valid ITU-T Recommendations.
2.1 Identical Recommendations | International Standards
– Recommendation ITU-T X.500 (2008) | ISO/IEC 9594-1:2008, Information technology – Open Systems
Interconnection – The Directory: Overview of concepts, models and services.
– Recommendation ITU-T X.501 (2008) | ISO/IEC 9594-2:2008, Information technology – Open Systems
Interconnection – The Directory: Models.
– Recommendation ITU-T X.662 (2008) | ISO/IEC 9834-3:2008, Information technology – Open Systems
Interconnection – Procedures for the operation of OSI Registration Authorities: Registration of object
identifier arcs beneath the top-level arc jointly administered by ISO and ITU-T.
– Recommendation ITU-T X.680 (2008) | ISO/IEC 8824-1:2008, Information technology – Abstract
Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation.
2.2 Paired Recommendations | International Standards equivalent in technical content
None.
2.3 Additional references
– Recommendation ITU-T X.121 (2000), International numbering plan for public data networks.
– Recommendation ITU-T X.669 (2008), Procedures for ITU-T registration of identified organizations.
Rec. ITU-T X.660 (07/2011) 1
– IETF RFC 5891 (2010), Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol.
– ISO 3166-1:2006, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1:
Country codes.
– ISO 3166-3:1999, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 3:
Codes for formerly used names of countries.
– ISO/IEC 6523-1:1998, Information technology – Structure for the identification of organizations and
organization parts – Part 1: Identification of organization identification schemes.
– ISO/IEC 6523-2:1998, Information technology – Structure for the identification of organizations and
organization parts – Part 2: Registration of organization identification schemes.
– ISO/IE
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