1.6 Applicability Statement

The RDS Transport Protocol specifies a protocol used for method invocation over HTTP. The RDS Transport Protocol is fully deprecated and is maintained only for backward-compatibility reasons. The functionality supplied by the RDS Transport Protocol is fully provided by SOAP [SOAP1.1] and by DCOM [MS-DCOM] (which is layered on RPC [MS-RPCE]) being transported over HTTP [MS-RPCH]. New implementations of client/server applications use SOAP and DCOM over HTTP.