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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Technical Specification

RFC 3377            LDAPv3: Technical Specification       September 2002


   The Note ends with this statement:

      Implementors are hereby discouraged from deploying LDAPv3 clients
      or servers which implement the update functionality, until a
      Proposed Standard for mandatory authentication in LDAPv3 has been
      approved and published as an RFC.

   [RFC 2829] is expressly the "Proposed Standard for mandatory
   authentication in LDAPv3" called for in the Note.  Thus, the IESG
   Note in [RFC 2251], [RFC 2252], [RFC 2253], [RFC 2254], [RFC 2255], and
   [RFC 2256] is addressed.

4.  Security Considerations

   This document does not directly discuss security, although the
   context of the aforementioned IESG Note is security related, as is
   the manner in which it is addressed.

   Please refer to the referenced documents, especially [RFC 2829],
   [RFC 2251], and [RFC 2830], for further information concerning LDAPv3
   security.

5.  Acknowledgements

   The authors thank Patrik Faltstrom, Leslie Daigle, Thomas Narten, and
   Kurt Zeilenga for their contributions to this document.

6.  References

   [RFC 2251]  Wahl, M., Kille, S. and T. Howes, "Lightweight Directory
              Access Protocol (v3)", RFC 2251, December 1997.

   [RFC 2252]  Wahl, M., Coulbeck, A., Howes, T. and S. Kille,
              "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute
              Syntax Definitions", RFC 2252, December 1997.

   [RFC 2253]  Kille, S., Wahl, M. and T. Howes, "Lightweight Directory
              Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of
              Distinguished Names", RFC 2253, December 1997.

   [RFC 2254]  Howes, T., "The String Representation of LDAP Search
              Filters", RFC 2254, December 1997.

   [RFC 2255]  Howes, T. and M. Smith, "The LDAP URL Format", RFC 2255,
              December 1997.

   [RFC 2256]  Wahl, M., "A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use
              with LDAPv3", RFC 2256, December 1997.



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