An SDOF system is one whose motion is governed by a single, second-order differential equation. Only two variables, position and velocity are needed to describe the trajectory of the system. Many structures can be idealized as single degree-of-freedom systems.
The LDAP Data Interchange Format is a standard plain text data interchange format for representing LDAP directory content and update requests. LDIF conveys directory content as a set of records, one record for each object.