For the last 12 years, he has been designing and developing the Sun Directory products (from Sun Directory Services 1.0 to OpenDS), working in all areas from management tools, to client libraries, protocols, security and multi-master replication. Ludovic has participated in the LDAP standards at IETF and the Directory Interoperability Forum from The Open Group. Mr Poitou blogs on the subject of Directory Services, LDAP and Identity Management at http://blogs.sun.com/Ludo.