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The X.500 standard specifies a distributed directory service designed to store information about people and objects associated with computer networks. Its API is geared towards retrieving information based on this application domain. Recently, a number of projects have used the directory in non-traditional ways. Such applications, however, are constrained by the X.500 information model and the...