2. The method of claim 1 wherein: said directory access protocol comprises a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP); and said text based markup language comprises tags in conformance with an Extensible Markup Language (XML).
2. The method of claim 1 wherein: said directory access protocol comprises a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP); and said text based markup language comprises tags in conformance with an Extensible Markup Language (XML). 4. The method of claim 2 wherein: said supplying comprises passing the directory schema to an LDAP server; the method further comprises said LDAP server building a directory in conformance with said directory schema; the method further comprises performing input-output of a plurality of entries in conformance with the input schema, on said directory accessed via said LDAP server.