<div class="content" name="Introduction" uuid="3e7fbc66-f62a-4123-96d1-38e5b5368321"><p>The Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Control Protocol
specifies an RPC interface that provides the ability to remotely invoke
services provided by <a href="c9ecc8ee-2046-4ef2-b2ec-329fde7f8b01#gt_8ed48787-eb06-4b86-8b2e-19347bfbf07b" data-linktype="relative-path">WDS
Server</a>. It is a client/server protocol which uses RPC as a transport. The
protocol provides a generic invocation mechanism to send requests to a server
and receive replies.</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>