Maximizing Alignment with LDAP

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Maximizing Alignment with LDAP

• LDAP and X.500 complimentary
• X.500 has a complex legacy
• LDAP well-deployed in the market
• Alignment of the two will help both

Peter Yee (yee_at_spyrus.com)
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Some Areas of Work

• X.500 encapsulation of LDAP requests, allowing
  chaining
• Related entries
• Name resolution
• Protocol/presentation interoperability
• Schema
• Replication and Metadirectory

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Some Areas of Work (cont.)

• Subentries
• Security
• New functionality

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Details

• Available from ftp//ftp.bull.com
• pub/OSIdirectory/Orlando2000Output/LDAPalignmentWD
  .doc
• pub/OSIdirectory/Orlando2000Output/LDAPalignmentWD
  .pdf
• Mailing list OSIdirectory_at_az05.bull.com
• Editor Skip Slone (skip.slone_at_lmco.com)b