Tim Howes

Tim Howes is the co-inventor of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP),the Internet standard for directories. The main purpose was to handle situations that X.500 could not address. In computer networking, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, is a networking protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP. An LDAP directory usually follows the X.500 model: It is a tree of entries, each of which consists of a set of named attributes with... Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol for accessing on-line directory services. ... X.500 is the set of ITU-T computer networking standards covering electronic directory services such as white pages, Knowbot and whois. ...

X.500 directories list network resources to make finding them and using them easier for network administrators and users. Unfortunately, accessing X.500 records has required a full-blown X.500 server; there was no such thing as an X.500 client. This led Howes to co-create DIXIE, a directory client for X.500 directories. This work formed the basis of his Ph.D. dissertation and was the foundation for LDAP, a standards-based version of DIXIE for both clients and servers. X.500 is the set of ITU-T computer networking standards covering electronic directory services such as white pages, Knowbot and whois. ... X.500 is the set of ITU-T computer networking standards covering electronic directory services such as white pages, Knowbot and whois. ... X.500 is the set of ITU-T computer networking standards covering electronic directory services such as white pages, Knowbot and whois. ... X.500 is the set of ITU-T computer networking standards covering electronic directory services such as white pages, Knowbot and whois. ... X.500 is the set of ITU-T computer networking standards covering electronic directory services such as white pages, Knowbot and whois. ... Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol for accessing on-line directory services. ... This article is about computer servers. ...

In 1996, Tim was named one of the Top 25 Network Technology Drivers by Network Computing magazine. In 1997, LDAP version 3 won PC Magazine's Technical Excellence: Networking award. In June, Tim received Netscape's highest engineering honor - he was named a Netscape Fellow, a position reserved for only a few of the company's most highly skilled technologists. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol for accessing on-line directory services. ... PC Magazine is a computer magazine published biweekly both in print and online. ... Netscape is the general name for a series of web browsers originally produced by Netscape Communications Corporation, but now developed by AOL. The original browser was once the dominant browser in terms of usage share, but it now has only a relatively small number of users. ...