1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

This protocol is implemented on RPC, as specified in [MS-RPCE], which uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as a transport. Aside from managing the policy for the firewall itself, this protocol is used to remotely manage the security policy database of the Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol [RFC4301], which describes how Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) should be enforced and what options the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) [RFC2409], Authenticated IP (AuthIP) [MS-AIPS], and Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) [RFC4306] have available to negotiate. This protocol also exposes an abstract interface to configure firewall and advanced security policy for use by other mechanisms such as Group Policy [MS-GPFAS].