3.3.3 Initialization

The server MUST establish a listening TCP endpoint on port 80, as specified in [RFC2616] section 1.4, or port 443 for using HTTPS, as specified in [RFC2818] section 2.3. The server MAY establish additional listening ports.<74>

The server MUST successfully initialize the machinery required to listen on the URI of the RDS server.<75> The server also MUST successfully initialize channels of communication to a data store in order to successfully run queries against that data store.