			A N N O U N C E M E N T

    The University of Michigan is pleased to announce release 2.0 of
    UM-LDAP, an implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access
    Protocol.  LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a
    proposed Internet standard protocol for accessing X.500, that runs
    over TCP/IP.  It is similar in function to the DAS and DIXIE
    protocols described in RFC's 1202 and 1249, respectively.  LDAP
    itself is currently described by the Internet Drafts osi-ds-26 and
    osi-ds-27.

    This release includes the following components:

	- LDAP server

	- Asynchronous client library

	- Synchronous client library

	- Lightweight BER encoding/decoding library

	- An LDAP-based X.500 finger daemon

	- Two LDAP-based gopher to X.500 gateways

	- ud, an LDAP-based command line DUA

    ISODE-8.0 and QUIPU are required to build the server, but the clients
    and associated libraries can be built separately without having ISODE.

CHANGES & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    Changes from release 1.0 of LDAP include

	- several bug fixes
	- improved error handling
	- bitstring support added to the lber library
	- fax photo support added to the ldap server
	- true abandon capability has been added
	- addition of ud, a simple command line user agent
	- addition of go500gw, a general gopher to X.500 gateway
	- additional platform support (Ultrix, MS-DOS, Mac)

    Many thanks to Mark Smith for contributing many of these changes
    and finding most of the bugs!  Thanks also go to Bryan Beecher
    for porting the ud client from DIXIE to LDAP.

AVAILABILITY

    This software is freely available to anyone for any lawful purpose,
    subject to the U-M copyright notice and disclaimer.  The software is
    available for anonymous ftp from the host terminator.cc.umich.edu
    in the x500/ directory.  The file is called ldap-2.0.tar.Z.

SUPPORT

    The software is provided as is without any express or implied
    warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
    responded to on a best-effort basis:

	bug-ldap@terminator.cc.umich.edu

    In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
    implementation of ldap:

	ldap@terminator.cc.umich.edu		-- discussion list
	ldap-request@terminator.cc.umich.edu	-- to join the list

    Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
    sent to the OSI-DS discussion group:

	osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

    All components of this release are known to run under SunOS 4.1.1
    and Utrix 4.2.  In addition, the client libraries (liblber and
    libldap) have been ported to the following platforms/configurations:

	Apple Macintosh	System 6.0 or higher, using Think C version
	5.0.2, and MacTCP.

	MSDOS version 5.00, using Microsoft C version 5.00, and NCSA
	Telnet.

    Future releases will likely be ported to other platforms.
