<div class="content" name="Introduction" uuid="1a7f31b6-41d5-4299-9c21-2f4bedcfced0"><p>The Local Security Authority (Translation Methods) Remote
Protocol is implemented in Windows products to translate identifiers for <a href="e79f2680-84d9-4d34-bc78-5ab9e1255653#gt_f3ef2572-95cf-4c5c-b3c9-551fd648f409" data-linktype="relative-path">security principals</a> between
human-readable and machine-readable forms. This translation can be used in
scenarios such as human management of resource access.</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>