Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Back up a step and I think you'd find that those companies had mainframe X.500 systems that predate any PC or unix implementations because at the time only a mainframe had the necessary capacity. Some may still be running the master copy on mainframes. Remember that the L in LDAP means 'lightweight' which only makes sense in comparison to X.500,
If you didn't notice, I _did_ say "DAP" (X.500) in several places. Now maybe I wrote only "LDAP" in some places where I was talking about NsDS, Sun One and other solutions, but I _did_ say "DAP" for Novell eDirectory (fka NDS), because it does it.
and that from the start LDAP was designed to work as a tcp front end query mechanism to X.500 directories as well as a standalone database for smaller systems.
Right. Whereas "DAP" can come in many protocol forms.