Sun Directory Services は、次のインターネット標準と提案標準に基づいています。
RFC 1777 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
RFC 1778 The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes
RFC 2138 Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RFC 2139 RADIUS Accounting
RFC 1565 Network Services Monitoring MIB
RFC 1567 X.500 Directory Monitoring MIB
RFC 2222 Simple Authentication and Security Layer
RFC 2251 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)
RFC 2252 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) Attribute Syntax Definitions
RFC 2253 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names
RFC 2254 The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters
RFC 2255 The LDAP URL Format
RFC 2256 A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for Use with LDAPv3
RFC 1274 The COSINE and Internet X.500 Schema
draft-byrne-alias-00.txt
draft-howard-nis-schema-04.txt
draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-referral-00.txt
draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-tls-02.txt
draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-lang-02.txt
draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-ext-04.txt
draft-ietf-asid-ldif-02.txt
draft-ietf-radius-auth-servmib-01.txt
draft-ietf-radius-acc-servmib-01.txt
draft-ryan-java-00.txt
Sun Directory Services は、次の OSI 標準をサポートします。
ITU-T X.500 1988 Recommendations
ITU-T X.208 Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
ITU-T X.209 Basic Encoding rules (BER)