This document presents an analysis of the features of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Version 3 (LDAP v3), as a basis for the LDAP Certified Product Standard.1
LDAP v3 is specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in a
number of their Requests For Comments (RFCs). These RFCs are identified
by
IETF RFC 3377.
This presents a problem for organizations that wish to use products
that are LDAP clients or servers. Those organizations need to know
whether servers will support the client applications that they want to
use, and need to know whether client applications will interoperate
with the servers that they have.
The LDAP Certified and LDAP Ready certification programs
meet these needs for information. A server that is LDAP Certified is
warranted by its vendor to support a particular set of clearly
identified features of LDAP. Such a set of features is an LDAP
Profile. An application that is LDAP Ready is warranted by its
vendor to interoperate with any LDAP Certified server that supports the
LDAP Profile that it requires.
This document contains:
The functional requirements that LDAP servers must meet in order to be
LDAP Certified are stated in the LDAP Certified Product Standard. The
options within the LDAP Certified Product Standard that products
support are detailed in their LDAP Certified Conformance
Statements. The features that LDAP Ready products require are
detailed in their LDAP Ready Conditions Statements.
The LDAP Certified Product Standard, LDAP Certified Conformance
Statements, and LDAP Ready Conditions Statements make normative
references to the descriptions of LDAP Profiles in
The overview of Directory Solutions in
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