{{Short description|Internet application protocol}} The '''SLAPD''' ('''Standalone LDAP Daemon''') and '''SLURPD''' ('''Stand-alone LDAP update replication daemon''') are directory services used over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. These protocols originally evolved within the long-running project that developed the LDAP protocol.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ldapwiki.com/wiki/SLAPD|title=Ldapwiki: SLAPD|work=ldapwiki.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapd|title=slapd|work=openldap.org}}</ref> It was developed at the University of Michigan, and was the first Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) software.<ref name=":0" />
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 Nexor authored the original LDAP specification.<ref>RFC 1777 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)</ref><ref>RFC 1778 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)</ref> 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 Quipu X.500 directory and SLAPD.
== Netscape Communications Corporation == In 1996, Netscape Communications Corporation hired several of the project's developers, who then worked on what became known as the Netscape Directory Server.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=History of Directory Services|url=https://idmdude.com/tag/tim-howes/}}</ref>
== SLAPD Implementations ==
* 389 Directory Server * OpenLDAP
== See also ==
==Notes== {{reflist}}
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