1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols
The IPAM Management Protocol uses SOAP message for formatting the requests and responses as specified in [SOAP1.2-1/2007] and [SOAP1.2-2/2007]. These SOAP messages are sent over the .NET Message Framing TCP Binding Protocol ([MS-NMFTB]) which is built on top of TCP/IP protocol.
The following diagram shows the underlying messaging and transport stack that is being used by this protocol.

Figure 2: Protocol Stack Diagram