LDAP Release 3.0

Tim Howes <tim@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Fri, 29 October 1993 16:49 UTC

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Sorry for the cross-posting.         -- Tim


			A N N O U N C E M E N T

    The University of Michigan is pleased to announce release 3.0 of
    UM-LDAP, an implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access
    Protocol.  LDAP is a proposed Internet standard protocol for
    accessing X.500, that runs over TCP/IP.  It is similar in function
    to the DAS and DIXIE protocols described in RFC's 1202 and 1249,
    respectively.  LDAP itself is defined by RFC 1487 and RFC 1488.

    This release includes the following components:

	- LDAP server

	- Asynchronous client library

	- Synchronous client library

	- Lightweight BER encoding/decoding library

	- xfingerd, an LDAP-based X.500 finger daemon

	- go500 and go500gw, two LDAP-based gopher to X.500 gateways

	- ud, an LDAP-based command line DUA

	- rcpt500, an LDAP-based email query responder

	- mail500, an LDAP-based X.500-capable mailer

	- fax500 and xrpcomp, an LDAP-based X.500-capable mailer and
	  mh-based user agent that support remote printing

	- whois++, a WHOIS++ server that uses X.500 as its database

    ISODE and QUIPU (either version 8.0 or ICR1) are required to build
    the server, but the clients and associated libraries can be built
    separately without having ISODE.

CHANGES & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    Changes from release 2.0 of LDAP include

	- many bug fixes
	- addition of rcpt500, a mail-based query responder
	- addition of mail500, an X.500-capable mailer
	- addition of fax500 and xrpcomp, remote-printing mailer and UA
	- addition of caching support to the ldap library
	- addition of preliminary ufn support to the ldap library
	- addition of general filter handling support to the ldap library
	- additional platform support (AIX, NeXT, PC NFS, Windows DLL)
	- ldap_bind() call has changed (WARNING!! See the README file)

    The LDAP development team would like to thank Andy Powell, Mark
    Prior, William Green, Richard Letts, Tomasz Wolniewicz, Enrique
    Silvestre Mora, Roland Hedberg, Erik Huizer, Ton Verschuren, Wade
    Williams, Gary Veum, Martijn Koster, Phil Gladstone, Mike Newell,
    Craig Watkins, Paulo Fernandes, Eric Rosenquist and probably some
    others I've forgotten for contributing bug reports, fixes, and
    additional code and documentation.

AVAILABILITY

    This software is freely available to anyone for any lawful purpose,
    subject to the U-M copyright notice and disclaimer.  The software is
    available for anonymous ftp from the host terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
    in the x500/ldap/ directory.  The file is called ldap-3.0.tar.Z.

SUPPORT

    The software is provided as is without any express or implied
    warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
    responded to on a best-effort basis:

	bug-ldap@umich.edu

    In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
    implementation of ldap:

	ldap@umich.edu		-- discussion list
	ldap-request@umich.edu	-- to join the list

    Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
    sent to the OSI-DS discussion group:

	osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

    All components of this release are known to run under SunOS 4.1.x,
    and are believed to work on Utrix 4.x, AIX 3.2, HP-UX, A-UX.  In
    addition, the client libraries (liblber and libldap) have been
    ported to NeXTStep 3.0 and the following platforms/configurations:

	Apple Macintosh	System 6.0 or higher, using Think C version
	5.x or 6.x, and MacTCP, or MPW version 3.x.

	MSDOS version 5.00, using Microsoft C version 5.00, and NCSA
	Telnet or PC NFS.

	MS Windows version 3.1, using Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 and
	Winsock 1.1 compliant TCP/IP.

    Future releases will likely be ported to other platforms.

LDAP Release 3.0 Tim Howes