The SLAPD (Standalone

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Daemon) and SLURPD (Stand-alone LDAP update replication daemon) originally evolved within the long-running project that developed the LDAP protocol. It was developed at the

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, and was the first Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) software. Today, many LDAP Server Implementations are derived from the same code base of the original SLAPD and/or evolutions of it.

University of Michigan

Tim Howes of the University of Michigan, Steve Kille of Isode Limited, Wengyik Yeong of Performance Systems International and Colin Robbins of

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authored the original

specification.RFC 1778 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) In 1993, initial implementations of the LDAP standard were made by Howes at the University of Michigan, in the form of LDAPD as a proxy for the

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directory and SLAPD.

Netscape Communications Corporation

In 1996

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hired several of the project's developers, who then worked on what became known as the Netscape Directory Server.

SLAPD Implementations

* 389 Directory Server * OpenLDAP

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University of Michigan

Netscape Communications Corporation

SLAPD Implementations

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