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Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) to Historic Status

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


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   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



Zeilenga                     Informational