1 Introduction

The Print System Asynchronous Notification Protocol is used asynchronously by clients to receive print status notifications from a server and to send back responses to those notifications. A set of notifications and responses are defined together as a notification type.

This protocol is based on remote procedure call (RPC) [C706] [MS-RPCE]. The interfaces and methods defined by this protocol provide a transport mechanism for arbitrary notification types.

The Print System Asynchronous Notification Protocol defines a notification type called AsyncUI. The AsyncUI notification type enables a notification source on a server to request the display of an informative alert on a client, the client to send back user input requested by the alert, and the notification source to request the execution of code that is resident on the client.

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.