1.4 Audience

The Windows documentation set is intended for use in conjunction with publicly available and standards-based specifications, network programming background material, and Windows distributed systems concepts. It assumes that the reader either is familiar with this material or has immediate access to it.

The documentation set provides the following levels of audience support:

  • For implementers: Conceptual and reference information for an implementation of one or more protocol specifications for a given task or scenario.

  • For architects: Structural and interoperability information for an implementation of a technology consisting of a group of related protocols.