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  | Description:
 | International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication standardization sector (ITU-T)
 
 
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 | Subsequent OIDs identify ITU-T Recommendations (not jointly published with ISO/IEC) and ITU members.
 
 This arc is also called
 ccitt(0)to recall that CCITT used to be an organization independent from ITU-T.
 Identifier
 itu-rwas added by ITU-T Study Group 17 in March 2004 (and was ratified by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 in Sep 2005). It can only be used as a 'NameAndNumberForm' (that is, followed by number5between parentheses) for OIDs that commence with{itu-r(0) r-recommendation(5)}(see Rec. ITU-T X.680 | ISO/IEC 9834-1, clause A.5, for more details on this specific case). Consequently Unicode label "ITU-R" can only be used for "OID-IRIs" that designate OIDs under the{itu-r(0) r-recommendation(5)}arc.
 Operation is in accordance with Rec. ITU-T X.660 | ISO/IEC 9834-1 and is under the guidance of ITU-T Study Group 17.
 
 All decisions related to subsequent arcs, other than the assignment of additional secondary identifiers to top-level arc
 0(see Rec. ITU-T X.660 | ISO/IEC 9834-1, clause A.5), will be recorded as amendments to Rec. ITU-T X.660 | ISO/IEC 9834-1 (such changes to the joint ITU-T | ISO/IEC text will be regarded as editorial by ISO).
 From Rec. ITU-T X.660 | ISO/IEC 9834-1, "the top-level arcs are restricted to three arcs numbered
 0to2; and the arcs beneath root arcs0and1are restricted to forty arcs numbered0to39. This enables optimized encodings to be used in which the values of the top two arcs for all arcs under top-level arcs0and1encode in a single octet in an object identifier encoding (see the Rec. ITU-T X.690 series | ISO/IEC 8825 multi-part Standard).
 
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