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From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 12:07:14 EDT

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: McDonald, Ira [mailto:imcdonald@sharplabs.com]
    Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 2:27 PM
    To: McDonald, Ira; 'srvloc-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net'
    Subject: [Srvloc-discuss] RE: Editors: RFC 3377 - single authoritative
    LDAPv3 reference

    Hi,

    Oops - I left off the last (most important) paragraph of section 2:

        "The term "LDAPv3" is often used informally to refer to the protocol
        specified by the above set of RFCs, or subsets thereof. However, the
    >> LDAPv3 protocol suite, as defined here, should be formally identified
    >> in other documents by a normative reference to this document."

    Cheers,
    - Ira McDonald
      High North Inc

    -----Original Message-----
    From: McDonald, Ira
    Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 2:20 PM
    To: srvloc-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
    Subject: Editors: RFC 3377 - single authoritative LDAPv3 reference

    SLP document editors,

    Just published - the LDAPv3 "roadmap":

    RFC 3377 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Technical
             Specification. J. Hodges, R. Morgan. September 2002. (Format:
             TXT=9981 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
             ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3377

    Cheers,
    - Ira McDonald
      High North Inc

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [excerpt from RFC 3377]

    Abstract

       This document specifies the set of RFCs comprising the Lightweight
       Directory Access Protocol Version 3 (LDAPv3), and addresses the "IESG
       Note" attached to RFCs 2251 through 2256.

    1. Background and Motivation

       The specification for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
       version 3 (LDAPv3) nominally comprises eight RFCs which were issued
       in two distinct subsets at separate times -- RFCs 2251 through 2256
       first, then RFCs 2829 and 2830 following later.

       RFC 2251 through 2256 do not mandate the implementation of any
       satisfactory authentication mechanisms and hence were published with
       an "IESG Note" discouraging implementation and deployment of LDAPv3
       clients or servers implementing update functionality until a Proposed
       Standard for mandatory authentication in LDAPv3 is published.

       RFC 2829 was subsequently published in answer to the IESG Note.

       The purpose of this document is to explicitly specify the set of RFCs
       comprising LDAPv3, and formally address the IESG Note through
       explicit inclusion of RFC 2829.

    2. Specification of LDAPv3

       The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 3 (LDAPv3) is
       specified by this set of nine RFCs:

          [RFC2251] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) [the
                     specification of the LDAP on-the-wire protocol]

          [RFC2252] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute
                     Syntax Definitions

          [RFC2253] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8
                     String Representation of Distinguished Names

          [RFC2254] The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters

          [RFC2255] The LDAP URL Format

          [RFC2256] A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with
                     LDAPv3

          [RFC2829] Authentication Methods for LDAP

          [RFC2830] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension
                     for Transport Layer Security

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