LDAP (13)
LDAP can be bound to several languages (Java, JavaScript, ODBC, VBasic)
Well-known open source projects (Apache, FreeBSD, Linux, Perl, Sendmail, TCL, Python) all work on LDAP interfaces
Netscape provides Software Developer Kits (SDKs) to help write clients and tools (Java, C)
Open LDAP project: fully featured, open source LDAP suite of application and development tools
Schema standardization is progressing
The standard (IETF LDAP) won’t be stable until sometime in 2000
http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/slapd/index.html