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Directories are an essential part of the infrastructure necessary to conduct e-business.
By combining our efforts, the Forum wants to accelerate the availability of an e-business environment as a critical success factor for all companies wanting to leverage the Internet. The Directory Forum is interested in helping to advance open directories based on the LDAP standards, to make directories more useable, to help ensure that any application written to utilize an open directory will be able to run with any directory without regard to the supplier, and to make it easy for software developers to create those applications. The intention of the working group is to establish it as an open standard, so that developers and vendors will be able to adopt it into their systems. Bowstreet has created the initial draft of the DSML specification. The supporting members at the time of the founding are IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and the Sun-Netscape Alliance.