<div class="content" name="Introduction" uuid="d2933772-dae0-4bd4-a258-a8e5dfe1335f"><p>The DCOM Interfaces for Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
Virtual Smart Card Management Protocol is used to manage <a href="348a1d4a-acc7-43ea-9413-b7e92ae9682d#gt_51714f66-75dc-4642-bd63-73b8b2825067" data-linktype="relative-path">virtual smart cards (VSCs)</a>
on a remote machine, such as those based on trusted platform modules (TPM). It
provides methods for a protocol client to request creation and destruction of
VSCs and to monitor the status of these operations.</p><p>Sections 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 2, and 3 of this specification are
normative. All other sections and examples in this specification are
informative.</p></div>