RFC 1487 · HISTORIC · 1993
MON · 27 JUL 2026
X.500 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Overview
RFC 1487, “X.500 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol”, is a Historic document published in July 1993 by W. Yeong, T. Howes, S. Kille. It has been obsoleted by RFC 1777, RFC 3494 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
The protocol described in this document is designed to provide access to the Directory while not incurring the resource requirements of the Directory Access Protocol (DAP). [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Historic” means
A specification that has been superseded or is otherwise no longer recommended for use.
Read this RFC
The canonical text of RFC 1487 is hosted at rfc-editor.org. Available in TXT,HTML.
Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 1993
- RFC 1486 An Experiment in Remote Printing
- RFC 1488 The X.500 String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes
- RFC 1485 A String Representation of Distinguished Names (OSI-DS 23 )
- RFC 1489 Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set
- RFC 1484 Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming (OSI-DS 24 )
- RFC 1490 Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay
- RFC 1483 Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5
- RFC 1491 A Survey of Advanced Usages of X.500