Its potential is enormous.
Webmasters plan to use the protocol to create and update home pages dynamically.
Furt hermore, widespread adoption of LDAP, currently supported by 40-plus vendors, is expected to generate a wealth of new workflow applications built around directory services. The ultimate goal of the LDAP movement is to achieve universal browser access to a multiplicity of operating systems, e-mail and other directories that populate today's corporations. LDAP's acceptance also is seen as a way to clear a path for the acceptance of metadirectories, which provide a single view into multiple directories. Of course, all this is like bouncing a baby on your knee and envisioning a rosy future. Before that future can be attained, many hurdles must be cleared.