Appendix A. LDAP Standards Information

LDAP, like any other standards-based technology, is defined in great detail in a series of documents which are publicly available. As the technology matures and becomes more popular, requests for enhancements are inevitable, necessitating changes to these documents. We could have included copies of the current revision of LDAP documents, but the dynamic nature of LDAP technology would soon make them outdated so, instead of including these documents, we provide information on them and their location.

The following sections provide guidelines to important documents and pointers to where they can be found.

Locating RFCs and Internet Drafts

To locate the specifics of protocols such as LDAP v3, look at RFCs and Internet ...

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