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s, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Inter Engineering Task Force (IETF). LDAPv3, first published in 1997, superseded LDAPv2 and added support for extensibility, integrated the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, and better aligned the protocol to the 1993 edition of . Further development of the LDAPv3 specifications themselves and of numerous extensions adding features to LDAPv3 has e through the IETF. ? In the early engineering stages of LDAP, it was known as Lightweight Directory Browsing Protocol, or LDBP. It was renamed with the expansion of the scope of the protocol beyond directory browsing and searching, to include directory update functions. It was given its Lightweight name because it was not as work intensive as its DAP predecessor and thus was more easily implemented over the inter due to its relatively modest bandwidth usage. ? LDAP has influenced subsequent Inter protocols, including later versions of , XML Enabled Directory (XED), Directory Service M