Locating DS Entries by E-mail Address Preliminary Draft
draft-leach-asid-ds-email-00
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| Author | Paul J. Leach | ||
| Last updated | 1997-03-26 | ||
| RFC stream | (None) | ||
| Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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| Stream | Stream state | (No stream defined) | |
| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| RFC Editor Note | (None) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
| Telechat date | (None) | ||
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Abstract
The LDAPv3 protocol (as specified in [1]) is designed to be a lightweight access protocol for directory services supporting X.500 models. In addition, in an Internet context, many of the names about which users seek information are Internet email addresses. A native LDAP based directory service for the Internet should make it convenient to process such names -- there is a huge social investment spanning two decades to get to the point where names like 'john.doe@somewhere.com' can appear in newspaper articles, TV commercials, and on billboards and millions of people understand what do with them. This draft defines a very simple convention for looking up information associated with people identified by Internet email addresses - really nothing more than identifying an existing capability of LDAP, in the hopes that the convention can become widespread.
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