Dear Open EHR friends, It appears there are many uncertaintities on the use of OIDs and it has been difficult to find good information about it.
http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/oid/ There is a very informative web site I discovered recently which explains a lot about the total systema nd seems to have updated lists of assigned OIDs. In relation to the use as intended by CEN and OpenEHR specifications, I recommend that you make sure you have an organisation in your country related to health that should have a registered OID the easiest should be through your National standards body NEN to obtain one. Search on this to find also contact person. Then you need to assign specifics for the types of identifiers useed in your country. I agree we should try to get a global registry but it is not the most urgent but to get it to work nationally with the globally unique identifiers. Many people seem to think that there is only a number version of the OID but the international registration system does provide a textual form also used in eg ASN.1. See more on the web. For example the Swedish local Town Skeleftea appears as: {iso(1) member-body(2) se(752) skelleftea(89)} or just: 1.2.752.89. Not all have been appropirately registered with a name however. It also appears from this web site that NEN has only registered one OID but maybe it is not updated. Anyway good luck with your implementations. Gunnar Gunnar Klein (CEN/TC 251 chariman) - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
