Last week was the Interop Las Vegas show - I didn't make it but check out Craig Kitterman's blog for interesting details and tidbits from the show.  In particular, Microsoft made a number of interesting announcements around identity management furthering its commitment to deliver interoperability by design.  One of the announcements to "Extend Identity Management in the Enterprise" is the development of an OpenLDAP eXtensible Management Agent (XMA) for Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 that allows bi-directional synchronization of identity information between the OpenLDAP directory and ILM 2007.  The adapter will work against ILM's predecessor, Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 SP2 as well and will be built on top of the LDAP support in System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.

I will be working with our partners, KERNEL Networks and Oxford Computer Group as they develop the XMA so if you're interested I'll be discussing the project as it moves along.  If you're familiar with the space you probably know Craig Martin over in the Identity Trench, and he'll probably be blogging on the project from time to time as well.  The project is hosted on Sourceforge at http://openldap-xma.sourceforge.net - it's just getting going right now so please be patient but you should see changes start to roll in over the next few weeks.