Big Book of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) RFCs

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Summary: Presenting evolving standards in book form...
Review: ...can sometimes be a difficult task. Fortunately, the complier(s) of this big book of RFCs have done a great job at presenting the standards, in a single volume so when you are bored on a 6 hour flight, you can catch up on RFC 1617 and pour over the alias object class, or choose another and investigate what that cryptic attribute was *really* created to do, software vendors be damned :)

Overall, I think this is a great reference to have if you are an LDAP architect, developer or implementor, although not for the average person who is just looking at getting some knowledge of LDAP on the surface... Exactly what was needed!

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Summary: 5 stars goes to the authors of the ldap protocols
Review: It is nice to have all these RFCs(request for comments) in one book to help those who implement not to overlook some aspects of the implementation like say how to store a Java object in ldap directory service hopefully using JNDI and also how to find if your choice of ldap solution is 100% pure ldap. Not to mention understanding the real security of the ldap offered to systems, users and applications. What is the real Enterprise solution. I hoped this protocol has another friendly name like FarLook or WithinLook or even Enterprise Superman. Do not forget to consider the add-on ldap based applications, there are 30+ security apps. Good luck. [e-mail]