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TYPE: [WORKING GROUP] North American Directory Forum
DESCRIPTION: The North American Directory Forum (NADF) is a collection of service providers which plans to cooperatively offer a Public Directory Service in North America using the CCITT X.500 Recommendations. Although many groups are working on realizing X.500, the NADF is unique in that it must achieve a cooperative service offered by competing providers.
PARTICIPANTS: David Goodman (INSERT OTHERS HERE)
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [STANDARD] SSL
DESCRIPTION: The Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) was developed by Netscape in 1994 to provide security on the Internet. SSL was developed for securing web browser and server communications, but was designed such that TELNET and FTP, could also employ SSL.
PARTICIPANTS: (INSERT HERE)
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: SSL

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