This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Tuesday, May 17th, 2005. Today’s podcast contains one technical reference.

LDAP (v3) Revision is progressing to final stages of being turned into Draft Standard by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).  This is expected by December 2005. 

LDAP is the acronym for Lightwieght Directory Access Protocol and is basically "a lightweight alternative to the X.500 Directory Access Protocol (DAP) for use on the Internet. It uses TCP/IP stack verses the overly complex OSI stack. It also has other simplifications, such as the representing most attribute values and many protocol items as textual strings, that are designed to make clients easier to implement."

Some key sub-documents outline all the technical details like: protocol, string representation, name distinguishing, authentication methods, security mechanisms, resource locator, schemas, syntaxes, matching rules, road map, and models. This effort is also being heralded by OpenLDAP.org.  Which has version 2.2.26 available for download and details on how to implement solutions in Java.

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