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by p_l 241 days ago
That's why there was an entire section for unassigned numbers.

Binary protocols just meant you actually needed to implement serialiser/deserialiser and similar tooling instead of writing dumbest possible riff on strtok() and hoping your software won't be used anymore once DoD internet becomes mature
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cyberax 241 days ago
> That's why there was an entire section for unassigned numbers.

That's also why the majority of OIDs in SNMP are rooted in the 1.3.6 hierarchy, which belongs to the DoD.

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p_l 241 days ago
SNMP OIDs are in 1.3.6 because TCP/IP stack was once more well known as "DoD Internet".

And SNMP is explicitly a DoD Internet simplified alternative to CMIS

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