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As you have or probably will notice, this page doesn't supply much context around these documents. See the Behind the Basics page if that's what you're looking for. Also, see Innosoft's (i.e. Mark Wahl's) listing of these documents which includes the documents' abstracts.
This set of documents is commonly referred to as the Core LDAPv3 RFCs or as the LDAPv3 Core Documents, or some variation thereof.
[Note: As of yet there is not an RFC formally stating "the following is the set of RFCs comprising LDAPv3", but there is a doc-in-progress to cover this base. It is:
Also note there is a working group, LDAPbis, whose charter is to progress the above Internet-Draft and the below RFCs to Draft Standard.]
This RFC is the counterpart to the Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol: X.500 Lite paper, also referenced
in The Basics section, and officially
specifies version 2 of the LDAP protocol (LDAPv2) along with the two other
RFCs below. The IETF's Applications Area Director stated that LDAPv2 will
not progress to "full standard" because of various perceived dificiencies.
Thus the IETF's Access and Sychronization of Internet Directories working
group (ASID) developed LDAPv3 (see above). ASID is now officially
disbanded -- see this page for info on current
LDAP-oriented IETF Working Groups.
The above defines a small set of "short" attribute names, although
it doesn't define the full set as is commonly in present use within the
LDAP community. Clearly defining those is a topic of future work in the
IETF directory-oriented working groups.