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CA Directory Uses Both Major Industry Standards

To work together, you have to communicate and share information. This is essential for organizations growing through mergers and acquisitions, and business-to-business communication and eCommerce.

Standards-based directories let this communication take place. However, many directory systems on the market are unable to communicate with other directories.

CA Directory uses both of the following major directory standards:

• LDAP

  LDAP is a protocol for accessing directories. LDAP is a simplified version of the X.500 directory access protocol (DAP).

• X.500

  X.500 is a set of computer networking standards that define directory services. The protocols defined by the X.500 standards include DAP, DSP, and DISP. A directory that follows the X.500 standard has distributed operations, distributed management, distributed security, and replication.

LDAP is important for clients, while X.500 is important for servers.

CA Directory fully applies X.500 and LDAP standards to provide a distributed and reliable directory service. CA Directory uses LDAP support to access LDAP-only directories, and the X.500 distributed directory model for distribution.

In addition to supporting LDAP for access, CA Directory permits the integration of LDAP-only servers to a directory backbone.