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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) 1. Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories on ds.internic.net (US East Coast), nic.nordu.net (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim). 2. Abstract The protocol described in this document is designed to provide access to X.500 Directories while not incurring the resource requirements of the Directory Access Protocol (DAP). This protocol is specifically targeted at management applications and browser applications that provide read/write interactive access to the X.500 Directory, and is intended to be a complement to the DAP itself. Key aspects of this version of LDAP are:-All protocol elements of LDAP (RFC 1777) and CLDAP (RFC 1798) are supported.-Protocol elements are carried directly over TCP or other transport, bypassing much of the session/presentation overhead. Connectionless transport (UDP) is also supported for efficient lookup operations.-If desired, many protocol data elements can be encoded as ordinary strings (e.g., Distinguished Names).