1 Introduction
The Remote Data Services (RDS) Transport Protocol<1> is an HTTP request/response protocol that facilitates:
Remote method definition and invocation, including encoding of method call, parameters, and return parameters.
Method definitions for executing database commands and for synchronizing database results.
Definition of a record format for encoding database results.
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.