This charter is a snapshot of the 41st IETF Meeting in Los Angeles, California.
More work is needed to provide a full Internet directory service.
The LDAP Extension working group will define and standardize extensions to the LDAP version 3 protocol and extensions to the use of LDAP on the Internet. This work item will be to document the forms of client authorization provided by specific SASL mechanisms. LDAPv3 defines an information model and an authentication model, allowing information to be protected via access control. But LDAPv3 defines no standard representation or semantic for this access control information. This work item will be to define such a standard access control model.