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Conversion of LDAP Schemas to and from SLP Templates

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Network Working Group                                           J. Kempf
Request for Comments: 2926                        Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Category: Informational                                         R. Moats
                                                            Coreon, Inc.
                                                           P. St. Pierre
                                                  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
                                                          September 2000


          Conversion of LDAP Schemas to and from SLP Templates

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

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   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes a procedure for mapping between Service
   Location Protocol (SLP) service advertisements and lightweight
   directory access protocol (LDAP) descriptions of services.  The
   document covers two aspects of the mapping.  One aspect is mapping
   between SLP service type templates and LDAP directory schema.
   Because the SLP service type template grammar is relatively simple,
   mapping from service type templates to LDAP types is straightforward.
   Mapping in the other direction is straightforward if the attributes
   are restricted to use just a few of the syntaxes defined in RFC 2252.
   If arbitrary ASN.1 types occur in the schema, then the mapping is
   more complex and may even be impossible.  The second aspect is
   representation of service information in an LDAP directory.  The
   recommended representation simplifies interoperability with SLP by
   allowing SLP directory agents to backend into LDAP directory servers.
   The resulting system allows service advertisements to propagate
   easily between SLP and LDAP.












Kempf, et al.                Informational
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