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LDAP, UofM, is better X.500. MIT and other schools were all connected over Kerberos from before, DoD? Hence the connection.

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LDAP is a UofM innovation. Tim Howes, a Peter Honeyman student, wrote his dissertation about it, and then went on to found Loudcloud with Ben Horowitz.

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