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In article <1992Oct9.043136.18295@mel.dit.csiro.au> brian@mel.dit.csiro.au  
(Brian May) writes about Directory APIs:

[...]
> From IEEE/POSIX
> 
> P1224		Generic OSI data management API
> P1003.17	X.500 API (which needs P1224)

In fact, as a result of realignment in the POSIX committee structure, the  
document previously knowns as P1003.17 will be instead published as IEEE  
standard 1224.2.  The draft 4 I have just been forwarded for review is marked  
this way.

Brian is correct that 1224 and 1224.2 are based on XOM and XDS.  However, the  
standard is in its very final stages of balloting and is being modified during  
this (?) month's meeting in Utrecht only in order to resolve oustanding ballot  
comments, so I would say it's relatively stable at this point, and looks a lot  
liek XDS.  

I am not a member of the 1003.17/1224.2 committee, but my information is fairly  
current.  

As to other Directory APIs, I know of no other standard DAP API in progress,  
but the "lightweight" access protocol LDAP being addressed in the IETF OSI-DS  
Working Group does include a correspondingly "lightweight" API.
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