[Gllug] Google using LDAP?

[David L Neil]

Walter Stanish wrote:

> This is because LDAP is a protocol typically used only for
> internal infrastructure, and therefore not something any 
> competent network administrator would rush to expose to
> the general public.

Um, shared email address books for the likes of Mozilla Thunderbird are 
likely implemented in LDAP. I don't recall a whole lot of 'security' 
which would prevent them from being 'public' access.
(to be fair, read only)

There were a number of organisations who built X.500 directories and 
made them available/public. Of course that was before spamming became 
such a popular sport, so they've likely been taken off-air by now.

If I were building GMail I think I'd look at LDAP for such - see also 
Zimbra~Yahoo~VMWare which IIRC uses LDAP for more than just basic 
Address Book-ing. Of course no guarantee that some young buck at the 
Goo-factory would dream?think that such a thing 'already' exists. Also, 
would likely organise access through HTTPS, as you describe, because it 
is after all, WEBmail!

Regards,
=dn
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