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<reference anchor='RFC1959'>

<front>
<title>An LDAP URL Format</title>
<author initials='T.' surname='Howes' fullname='Tim Howes'>
<organization>University of Michigan, ITD Research Systems</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>535 W William St.</street>
<city>Ann Arbor</city>
<region>MI</region>
<code>48103-4943</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 313 747 4454</phone>
<email>tim@umich.edu</email></address></author>
<author initials='M.' surname='Smith' fullname='Mark Smith'>
<organization>University of Michigan, ITD Research Systems</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>535 W William St.</street>
<city>Ann Arbor</city>
<region>MI</region>
<code>48103-4943</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 313 764 2277</phone>
<email>mcs@umich.edu</email></address></author>
<date month='June' year='1996' />
<abstract>
<t>LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol,
defined in  and . This document describes a format for an LDAP Uniform Resource Locator which will allow Internet clients to have direct access to the LDAP protocol.  While LDAP currently is used only as a front end to the X.500 directory, the URL format described here is general enough to handle the case of stand-alone LDAP servers (i.e., LDAP servers not back-ended by X.500).</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1959' />
</reference>
