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Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) to Historic Status
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Network Working Group K. Zeilenga
Request for Comments: 3352 OpenLDAP Foundation
Obsoletes: 1798 March 2003
Category: Informational
Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP)
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
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP)
technical specification, RFC 1798, was published in 1995 as a
Proposed Standard. This document discusses the reasons why the CLDAP
technical specification has not been furthered on the Standard Track.
This document recommends that RFC 1798 be moved to Historic status.
1. Background
Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP)
[RFC 1798] was published in 1995 as a Proposed Standard. The protocol
was targeted at applications which require lookup of small amounts of
information held in the directory. The protocol avoids the overhead
of establishing (and closing) a connection and the session bind and
unbind operations needed in connection-oriented directory access
protocols. The CLDAP was designed to complement version 2 of the
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAPv2) [RFC 1777], now
Historic [HISTORIC].
In the seven years since its publication, CLDAP has not become widely
deployed on the Internet. There are a number of probable reasons for
this:
- Limited functionality:
+ anonymous only,
+ read only,
+ small result sizes only, and
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