Introduction to Directories and LDAP

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Key Point...

• LDAP is a vendor-independent, open, network PROTOCOL standard and thus is as platform-independent as you can get
  
  
• I.e. it supports multi-vendor interoperability -- in the same fashion as TCP/IP, SMTP, DNS, and others

So, those examples on the previous page could all be being done transparently across a highly heterogeneous network (i.e. the Internet)