Represent an ISO Object Identifier.
Object Identifiers are arbitrary length hierarchical identifiers.
The individual components are numbers, and they define paths from the
root of an ISO-managed identifier space. You will sometimes see a
string name used instead of (or in addition to) the numerical id.
These are synonyms for the numerical IDs, but are not widely used
since most sites do not know all the requisite strings, while all
sites can parse the numeric forms.
So for example, JavaSoft has the sole authority to assign the
meaning to identifiers below the 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.17 node in the
hierarchy, and other organizations can easily acquire the ability
to assign such unique identifiers.
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