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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 2 (LDAPv2) to Historic Status
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Network Working Group K. Zeilenga
Request for Comments: 3494 OpenLDAP Foundation
Obsoletes: 1484, 1485, 1487, 1488, 1777, March 2003
1778, 1779, 1781, 2559
Category: Informational
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 2 (LDAPv2)
to Historic Status
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.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document recommends the retirement of version 2 of the
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAPv2) and other dependent
specifications, and discusses the reasons for doing so. This
document recommends RFC 1777, 1778, 1779, 1781, and 2559 (as well as
documents they superseded) be moved to Historic status.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, version 2
LDAPv2 (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, version 2)
[RFC 1777][RFC 1778][RFC 1779] is an Internet Protocol used to access
X.500-based directory services. This document recommends that LDAPv2
and other dependent specifications be retired. Specifically, this
document recommends RFC 1777, 1778, 1779, 1781, and 2559 (as well as
documents they superseded) be moved to Historic status. The reasons
for taking this action are discussed below.
LDAPv2 was published in 1995 as a Draft Standard. Since its
publication, a number of inadequacies in the specification have been
discovered. LDAPv3 [RFC 3377] was published in 1997 as a Proposed
Standard to resolve these inadequacies. While LDAPv3 is currently
being revised [LDAPbis], it is clearly technically superior to
LDAPv2.
The LDAPv2 specification is not generally adhered to; that is, an
independently developed implementation of the specification would not
interoperate with existing implementations, as existing
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