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.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
-The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol provides access to
-X.500 directory services. The services may be stand\-alone
-or part of a distributed directory service. This API supports
-LDAP over TCP (RFC2251), LDAP over SSL, and LDAP over IPC (UNIX domain
-sockets). This API supports SASL (RFC2829) and Start TLS (RFC2830).
+The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol provides access to X.500
+directory services. The services may be stand\-alone or part of
+a distributed directory service. This API supports LDAP over TCP
+(RFC2251), LDAP over SSL, and LDAP over IPC (UNIX domain sockets).
+This API supports SASL (RFC2829) and Start TLS (RFC2830). This
+API is based upon IETF C LDAP API draft specification, a work in
+progress.
.LP
The OpenLDAP Software package includes a stand-alone server in
.BR slapd (8),
case insensitive string comparison
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR slapd (8)
+.BR draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-xx.txt \ <http://www.ietf.org>
.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
.B OpenLDAP
is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
.B OpenLDAP
is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
+.LP
+These API manual pages are based upon descriptions provided in the
+IETF C LDAP API Internet Draft, a work in progress, edited by
+Mark Smith.