It contains material mainly relevant to implementors. This document also includes a series of appendixes containing material that supplements the main text. These contain material relevant both to application programmers and implementors. This document is written for RPC application programmers and developers of RPC implementations. Italic strings are used for emphasis or to identify the first instance of a word requiring definition.
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