====== RFC1777 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) ======
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<caption>Data sheet for RFC1777 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)</caption>
| Title                      | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| Acronym                    | LDAP |
| Version                    | 1995 |
| Document Number            | RFC1777 |
| Release Date               | March 1995  |
| Reference                  | [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1777]] |
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  : **Note**: The following is an excerpt from the official IETF RFC. It is provided here as a convenience and is not authoritative. Refer to the original document as the authoritative reference.


===== Abstract =====
The protocol described in this document is designed to provide access
to the X.500 Directory while not incurring the resource requirements
of the Directory Access Protocol (DAP). This protocol is specifically
targeted at simple management applications and browser applications
that provide simple read/write interactive access to the X.500
Directory, and is intended to be a complement to the DAP itself.

Key aspects of LDAP are:

  * Protocol elements are carried directly over TCP or other transport, bypassing much of the session/presentation overhead.
  * Many protocol data elements are encoding as ordinary strings (e.g., Distinguished Names).
  * A lightweight BER encoding is used to encode all protocol elements.

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