Introduction to Directories and LDAP

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References...

• This talk is available at...

http://www.stanford.edu/~hodges/talks/ 



• LDAP and X.500 Roadmap, Jeff Hodges, periodically updated.

This page provides a roadmap for learning about LDAP and X.500 along with links to many and varied documents and resources, including the standards documents themselves.



• Stanford University Network Identifier Project (SUNet ID)
• SUNet ID Requirements, RL "Bob" Morgan, 3/1/96
• SUNet ID Design Proposal, RL "Bob" Morgan, 3/1/96
  
  
• SUNet Directory Services: Statement of Direction, Jeff Hodges, 24-Nov-96
  
  
• LDAP-based Routing of SMTP Messages: Approach at Stanford University, Jeff Hodges & Booker Bense, INTERNET-DRAFT, 26-Mar-97
  
  
• LDAP-based Routing of SMTP Messages: Approach Used by Netscape, Hans Lachman, INTERNET-DRAFT, March-97
  
  
• DirConnect 1, vendor-independent directory interoperability testing, sponsored by the Internet Mail Consortium, 1997.
  
  
• Vendor-specific Directory information resources

These papers have salient information about directory services, though they are quite vendor-specific...



• An Internet Approach to Directories, Netscape, 1997.
• Novell Directory Service (NDS) White Paper, Novell, 1997.
• Exchange Directory Service (LDAP), Microsoft, 1997.
  
  
  
• LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, T. Howes & M. Smith, Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-57870-000-0.