1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

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The Peer-to-Peer Graphing Protocol exposes a set of APIs to access its functionalities and an interface to allow applications to plug in a graph security provider to implement network and data security. The P2P Grouping protocol [MS-PPSEC] uses the Peer-to-Peer Graphing Protocol and implements a graph security provider component to implement a secure distributed database protocol.

The Peer-to-Peer Graphing Protocol uses the TCP protocol [RFC793] as a transport and IPv6 [RFC2460] as the network-layer protocol.

The following diagram shows how the Peer-to-Peer Graphing Protocol interacts with other protocols.

P2P Graphing relationship to other protocols

Figure 2: P2P Graphing relationship to other protocols