The 1st International Conference on LDAP is being held in Köln (Cologne) on the 6th and 7th of September of this year. The program sounds very interesting and includes a number of topics that interest me. Here is the current list of abstracts.

• Directory Standardization Report by Kurt Zeilenga
• OpenDS: not just yet another LDAP server! by Ludovic Poitou
• OpenLDAP 2.4 Highlights by Howard Chu
• Architecting the Modern LDAP Renaissance: The Apache Directory Vision by Alex Karasulu
• A Reference Schema for LDAP-based Identity Management Systems by Frank Tröger
• ACL Design behind IntegraTUM’s Decentralized and Delegable Group Management by Daniel Pluta
• Design of a Directory Tree by Giovanni Baruzzi
• Apache Directory Studio, a new Open Source LDAP & Directory Tooling Platform by Stefan Seelmann and Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot
• Complexity in a Global Directory Backbone by Hilla Reynolds
• Spring LDAP - Java LDAP Programming Made Simple by Mattias Arthursson
• The Highs and Lows of Integrating LDAP with XML by Steven Legg
• LDAP Proxy and Virtualization – Requirements vs. Capabilities by Abdi Mohammadi, Robert Polster, Andre Posner and Cengiz Tuztas
• LDAP Stored Procedures and Triggers in ApacheDS by Ersin Er
• Scaling Directories, Design & Deployment Considerations by Abdi Mohammadi, Robert Polster, Andre Posner and Cengiz Tuztas
• The FederID project by Clément OUDOT
• Moving LDAP writes to Web Services by Kostas Kalevras
• How to write highly efficient LDAP Applications and stop swamping the server by Felix Gaehtgens
• Lessons learnt from Samba’s LDAP backends by Volker Lendecke

Registration is open. I’ll be going.