The CSOR follows registration guidelines established by the international standards community and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Those guidelines established minimum responsibilities for registration authorities and assign the top branches of an international registration hierarchy. Under that international registration hierarchy the CSOR is responsible for the allocation of unique identifiers under the branch: {joint-iso-ccitt(2) country(16) us(840) organization(1) gov(101) csor(3)}. 

The document General Procedures for Registering Computer Security Objects (NISTIR 5308) defines generic administrative procedures for the registration of CSOs.  Requests for additional information and  questions should be addressed to: