WEBsmith is targeted as a resource for Web developers, including network administrators, Intranets administrators, and information systems staff. In late April, Netscape quietly made LDAP the standard way to serve up directories on the Internet. On June 14, Netscape opened a link on its News page to this one.
Directories are how computers and networks know what stuff is and where it goes.
Directories are also in a position to know where stuff goes when it moves, which is very handy for managing change . And, as you know, change is the natural condition of the Internet. Without ways to manage that change, we tolerate chaos. If Netscape has its way, directories will serve up their knowledge in one way, if not in one place. And, for the first time , we'll begin to see a kind of sanity we have never known before.