authentication password syntax
authorization identity control
Common Development and Distribution License
deprecated password storage scheme
entry change notification control
extensible match search filter
greater than or equal to search filter
less than or equal to search filter
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
notice of disconnection unsolicited notification
Password Modify extended operation
Simple Authentication and Security Layer
virtual attributes only control
The Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) is a protocol that may be used to communicate with directory servers. DSML is an alternative to LDAP, and uses an XML-based representation of requests and responses instead of the ASN.1 BER encoding that LDAP uses.
In general, DSML is seen as a relatively weak alternative to LDAP because it provides very little benefit and incurs a significant cost because the XML representation is much more verbose and expensive to process when compared with the BER encoding that LDAP uses. In most cases, it is recommended that LDAP be used instead of DSML to interact with the server.