References for More Information

Finger

RFC1288:The Finger User Information Protocol, D. Zimmerman, 1991.

WHOIS

ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list is a list of most major WHOIS servers.
RFC954:NICNAME/WHOIS, K. Harrenstien, M. Stahl, and E. Feinler, 1985.

LDAP

An Internet Approach to Directories, Netscape, 1997 (found at http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/ldap/ldap.html ) is an excellent white paper introduction to LDAP.
An LDAP Roadmap & FAQ, Jeff Hodges, 1999 (found at http://www.kingsmountain.com/ldapRoadmap.shtml).
http://www.ogre.com/ldap/ and http://www.linc-dev.com/ are the home pages for the co-developers of PerLDAP.
http://www.openldap.org/ is a free LDAP server under active development.
http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/index.html is home of the parent of both the OpenLDAP and Netscape directory servers. Some of the introduction documentation is still quite useful.
Implementing LDAP, by Mark Wilcox (Wrox Press, 1999).
LDAP-HOWTO, Mark Grennan, 1999 (found at http://www.grennan.com/ldap-HOWTO.html).
LDAP Overview Presentation, Bruce Greenblatt, 1999 (found at http://www.directory-applications.com/presentation/).
LDAP:Programming Directory-Enabled Applications With Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, by Tim Howes and Mark Smith (Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997).
Netscape Directory Server Administrator’s / Installation/Deployment Guides and SDK documentation (found at http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/directory.html).
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