RARE solicits tenders for the provision of a Directory User Agent employing the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP/RFC1487) for the MS-Windows operating system. Please direct all enquiries to the RARE Secretariat (raresec@rare.nl, mail address below).

Analysis of products available for personal/desktop computer systems has indicated that no LDAP solution is available for the MS-Windows platform. RARE has therefore decided to encourage the provision of such a solution by offering to assist with the development costs. A full specification of the requirements is attached to this solicitation.

This has really surprised me. I wrote one for NASA Headquarters this weekend; it was designed to be REALLY simple and return the basic information we need at Headquarters. All told it took me about 60 hours to learn Visual C++, LDAP, and WINSOCK enough to generate a simple interface. Surely there are others out there willing to share their projects???? Mike Newell NASA Advanced Network Applications