| No | "Thing" | Identifier | Characteristic | Universally Unique | Locally Unique | Mutable | Transferrable | Discoverable | Relation to Owner | Applicability | Secure | Controlling Body | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mobile Phone | IMEI | 15 or 17 NUMBER | USUALLY | NO | None | 3GPP and iDEN mobiles | GSM at European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) | |||||
| 2 | Mobile Phone Fixed Line Phone | MSISDN (E164) (Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number) | 15 digit (max for public networks; internal 40 digits more) | YES | YES | YES (with constraints) | No (it's up to the Telcos= exept: ENUM numbers | YES | Mobile and Fixed Telephony Networks | International Telecommunication Union ITU-T E.164 | In public networks a ITU E.164 number has up to 15 digits. A full E.164 number consist of a country code, identitfication code and a subscriber number. | ||
| IMSI | 64 BIT | YES | YES | YES | YES | any mobile network that connects to another network | ITU E.212 | ||||||
| TMSI | 4 OCTETS | NO | WITH THE VLR ONLY | YES | NO | YES | None | GSM or UMTS networks | Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (TMSI) is the identity that is most commonly sent between the mobile and the network. | ||||
| UDID | 40 CHAR | NO | Apple | iPhone unique device identifier, or UDID | |||||||||
| Android ID: | YES | ||||||||||||
| IEEE 802 node | MAC address | 48 BIT | Can Be | MASKING | YES | NONE | Most IEEE 802 network technologies, including Ethernet and WiFi. | IEEE | A media access control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. MAC addresses are used as a network address for most IEEE 802 network technologies, including Ethernet and WiFi. Common configurations are MAC-48, EUI-48, and EUI-64. | ||||
| PCI Component | PCI Identifier | 32 BITS (Vendor ID + Device ID) | NO | NO - Only idenifies Device Type uniquely | YES | YES | YES | NONE | Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), as its name implies is a standard that describes how to connect the peripheral components of a system together in a structured and controlled way. | ||||
| IPv4 Addressable Object | IP Address (IPV4) | 32 BITS | NO | YES (WITH CONSTRAINTS) | YES | NO | YES | VIA DNS | Internet connected devices utilize IP Addresses | Some TLDs utilize DNSSEC | IANA | The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) manages the IP address space allocations globally and delegates five regional Internet registries (RIRs) to allocate IP address blocks to local Internet registries (Internet service providers) and other entities. | |
| IPv6 Addressable Object | IP Address (IPV6) | 128 BITS | NO | YES (WITH CONSTRAINTS) | YES | NO | YES | VIA DNS | Internet connected devices utilize IP Addresses | Some TLDs utilize DNSSEC | IANA | The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) manages the IP address space allocations globally and delegates five regional Internet registries (RIRs) to allocate IP address blocks to local Internet registries (Internet service providers) and other entities. | |
| SNMP community | SNMP community name | variable | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | None | Obsolete | No | SNMP tops the list of the SANS Institute's Common Default Configuration Issues as the default SNMP community strings is set to ‘public’ and ‘private’ | ||
| SNMP network element | SMNP Agent Object Instance | OID | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Any network object that has an SNMP agent | If V3 | Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet-standard protocol for managing devices via "agents" on IP networks. | ||
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| SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) | DNP3 Remote Identifier | Link Address (1 or 2) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | None | Resembles IEC 60870-5 FT3 frame | Not by default, IEEE 1379-2000 recommends security practices | None, recommended in IEEE Std. IEEE 1379-2000 | DNP3 (Distributed Network Protocol) is a set of communications protocols used between components in process automation systems in utilities including electric and water companies. https://www.dnp.org/Lists/Announcements/Attachments/7/Secure%20Authentication%20v5%202011-11-08.pdf | |
| Smart Parking meter | |||||||||||||
| Voting Machine | |||||||||||||
| Radiological device | |||||||||||||
| Emergency Response Radio | |||||||||||||
| Automobile telematics device | |||||||||||||
| CAN Node | CAN Node ID | Variable, on the order of tens of bits | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | N | Q.v. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus | ||||
| Air Traffic Control Sensor | |||||||||||||
| Unattented Vehicle |
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