The Basics: An Introduction to Directory Services, LDAP, and X.500

A section of An LDAP Roadmap & FAQ: A tutorial aid to navigating various LDAP and X.500 resources on the Internet, v2.0a

by: Jeff Hodges

Under Construction   This is v2.0a -- a "beta" release -- it is still way under construction. You will find version 1.5, which may or may not be more up-to-date, HERE. Apologies for any confusion.
This section last updated: 16-Feb-1999
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Start here if you're just beginning...

These are basic introductory documents to directory services in general, and X.500 and LDAP in particular. I've arranged them to be read nominally in this order -- but of course that's entirely up to you. There's a fair amount of overlap in these overview docs, by the way....


The next section of these Roadmap pages provides pointers to the LDAP protocol specifications, associated standards documents, as well as other resources.

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