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by cyberax 235 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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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