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<p>On 10/26/2021 6:15 PM, Howard Chu wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">LDAP was a less bad version of X.500 (mostly) developed by Netscape in the 1990s. I am very familiar with it.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">You're very familiar with it you say, but no, it was developed mostly at University of Michigan. By 4 of my colleagues
there in fact. They only went on to be hired by Netscape after they had already developed a working implementation.</pre>
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<p>Many LDAP concepts were initially developed by Steve Kille at UCL
under the name "Quipu" in the early 90's, as part of a European
research project. The goal of the project was to develop
implementations of X.400 and X.500, but the researchers went on
developing gateways between X.400 and Internet mail, and TCP-IP
based alternatives to the X.500 directory protocols. Steve went on
to found the ISODE consortium for supporting these products. There
were parallel efforts by Marshall Rose at Performance Systems
International (RFC 1202) and by Tim Howes et al. at University of
Michigan (RFC 1249). The initial draft for LDAP was submitted in
1992, and published as RFC 1487 in 1993, authored by Wengyik Yeong
at Performance Systems International, Tim Howes at University of
Michigan, and Steve Kille at ISODE.</p>
<p>-- Christian Huitema<br>
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