3.4.1 Abstract Data Model

This section describes a conceptual model of possible data organization that an implementation maintains to participate in this protocol. The described organization is provided to facilitate the explanation of how the protocol behaves. This document does not mandate that implementations adhere to this model as long as their external behavior is consistent with that described in this document.

An IAutomaticUpdates and IAutomaticUpdates2 server maintains the following data element:

Results: An IAutomaticUpdateResults instance containing the results of the most recent operations performed by the automatic update agent.

Once initialized, this data element is never modified or reinitialized.