Introduction to LDAPCon 2011.

1. Is LDAP Dead ?
LDAPCon 2011 - Heidelberg
Ludovic Poitou - ForgeRock AS
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2. About me
- Ludovic Poitou
- ForgeRock: Director ForgeRock France,
Product Manager
- 1995-2010: Sun Microsystems
- Architect, Community Manager
- Directory Services team
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3. LDAP
- 1993: RFC 1487 - X.500 Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol
- 1995: RFC 1777 - LDAPv2
- 1997: RFC 2251 - LDAPv3
- 2006: RFC 4510 - LDAPv3 revision
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4. An Ecosystem
- Many Servers vendors:
- Apple, CA, IBM, Isode, Microsoft, Novell,
Oracle, Red Hat, UnboundID, eB2Bcom ...
- Optimal IdM, Quest (Symlabs), Radiant
Logic
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5. An Ecosystem
- 5 active open source LDAP server projects
- Apache Directory Server
- LDAP.js
- OpenDJ
- OpenLDAP
- Port 389 (Red Hat directory server)
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6. An Ecosystem
- An lots of active open source projects:
- Apache Directory Studio
- LSC-Project
- LDAP-ToolBox
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7. Mature and Declining
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8. But why DEAD ?
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9. Developer’s dilema
- Too many technologies
- Selection happens
- Is LDAP relevant ?
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10. HTTP, Rest, JSON
- It’s the new API
- Google, Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare...
- Web Services
- Cloud
- No SQL databases
- Service Oriented Architecture
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11. The new API
- JSON2LDAP
- http://nimbusds.com
- SCIM: Simple Cloud Identity Management
(aka Cloud Directory)
- https://sites.google.com/site/clouddir/home
- Virtual directory servers also have rest web
service access
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12. Remember X.500 ?
- What happens with HTTP/JSON ?
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13. Is LDAP Dead ?
- Not yet.
- But how long before it is ?
- Is there anything we can do ?
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