Project Advisor: Dr. Qiang Li Group Members: Beth Caruso

There is currently a great deal of interest, comment and speculation within the industry about directory services for the Internet. In particular, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is being positioned as the standard capable of providing open access to directory services on the Internet, as well as integrating directories and making a truly global directory service a reality. The main function of a directory system is to tell the user where in the network "something " is located and its characteristics. On the TCP/IP networks, like the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) is the directory system used to relate the domain name to a specific network address. However, even without knowing the domain name, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol allows you to search for an individual element without knowing where it is located in the network. Our project deals with using TSpaces to store the entries inside the LDAP directory. TSpaces is defined to be a communication buffer for networks. It possesses database facilities, enables URL-based file transfers between devices running on varie