The networking industry has been hinting at a vision with a snappy title like “identity-driven networking” The vision was that the network would query an LDAP-based network directory to enforce some kind of access control policies based upon user properties stored in network directories. The industry has moved on to 40/100Gb Ethernet, IPv6, virtualization, and cloud computing so the vision is coming together. We are quickly moving to the service paradigm of identity management where entities like users and devices connect to network services for connectivity.”]
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