Victor eve understates the case Ietf could assign oids in pretty much any space it likes and get away with it. Only recourse would be a lawsuit and heaven help the lawyer trying to draft a claim All the registries do is to help avoid collisions. These are really just numbers we have a process for avoiding double issue of Sent from my difference engine > On Mar 28, 2015, at 17:19, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:50:44PM -0500, Massimiliano Pala wrote: >> >> I do not really feel >> comfortable adopting OIDs that are under the control of a single >> organization. Would this be a first case ? > > I don't see any possibility of "control" of a leaf OID once it is > assigned. > > All that organizations control s the issuing of new OIDS under > particular prefixes, and their prerogative is basically limited to > avoiding collisions with other people assigning OIDs under their > respective prefixes. Once you publish an OID as fit for a particular > purpose, you cannot take it back. > > So I see no risk here. MIT's and Microsoft's OIDS are used in > Kerberos, for example. This has not and cannot cause any problems. > > -- > Viktor. >