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IETF RFC

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)1 Request for Comments (RFC)2 describe standards, protocols, and technologies of networked computing.

Listed here are protocols and their applicable RFCs.

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a vendor-neutral application protocol for accessing and distributing directory services over a network.

Microsoft® Active Directory Domain Service (ADDS)™3, Red Hat Identity Management4 / FreeIPA5, and OpenLDAP6 are examples of software that use LDAP.

  1. https://www.ietf.org/ ↩

  2. https://www.ietf.org/standards/rfcs/ ↩

  3. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/active-directory-domain-services ↩

  4. https://access.redhat.com/products/identity-management ↩

  5. https://www.freeipa.org/ ↩

  6. https://www.openldap.org/ ↩

Last update: February 20, 2022
Created: February 20, 2022