this book has real appeal. i was fortunate enough to pick it up off the book shelves. the in-depth analysis of LDAPv3 all all it's intracacies is fluent throughout the book. i really enjoyed the implementation section. not only have were the commands infinitely useful to my deployment, and other deployments i've seen in the field since - but it adds character and background you won't see in other books. for example, the naming of hosts and the reference to the IETF RFC's made me extremely happy. nobody except the best make casual calls to such sources. this is certainly the best LDAP book for the tech community.