Big Book of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) RFCs

Every current RFC describing or affecting an aspect of LDAP is collected in this volume, including RFCs formally defining LDAP, describing LDAP's interactions with other protocols, and informational documents that explain how LDAP operates. If you buy one LDAP reference, this is the one to choose. Written by members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group, the IESG, this compilation is the most complete and authoritative LDAP reference available.

Topics covered in this volume include:

• How LDAP data is formatted
  
• Connectionless LDAP (CLDAP)
  
• The LDAP application program interface (API)
  
• The string representation scheme for LDAP search filters
  
• The LDAP URL format
  
• Common Indexing Protocol (CIP)
  
• Use of language codes in LDAP

Table of contents

Foreword ix

Preface

Introduction

RFC 1777 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

RFC 1778 The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes

RFC 1779 A String Representation of Distinguished Names

RFC 1798 Connectionless Lightweight X.500 Directory Access Protocol

RFC 1823 The LDAP Application Program Interface

RFC 2164 Use of an X.500/LDAP Directory to Support MIXER Address
Mapping

RFC 2247 Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names

RFC 2251 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)

RFC 2252 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax
Definitions

RFC 2253 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String
Representation of Distinguished Names

RFC 2254 The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters

RFC 2255 The LDAP URL Format

RFC 2256 A Summary of the X.500 (96) User Schema for Use with LDAPv3

RFC 2307 An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service

RFC 2559 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols -
LDAPv2

RFC 2587 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure LDAPv2 Schema

RFC 2589 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extensions for
Dynamic Directory Services

RFC 2596 Use of Language Codes in LDAP

RFC 2649 An LDAP Control and Schema for Holding Operation Signatures

RFC 2651 The Architecture of the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP)

RFC 2657 LDAPv2 Client vs the Index Mesh

RFC 2696 LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results Manipulation

RFC 2713 Schema for Representing Java(tm) Objects in an LDAP Directory

RFC 2714 Schema for Representing CORBA Object Reference in an LDAP
Directory

Index