<div class="content"><p> </p><p>The direct children of a given namespace are represented as
instances of the <b>_Namespace</b> class within the parent namespace. A client
with sufficient privilege can query and modify the child namespaces through
operations on the <b>__Namespace</b> instances, as described in the following
subsections.</p><p>The namespaces, their corresponding classes and instances,
and subnamespaces and their corresponding classes and instances, MUST be
persisted in CIM database.</p></div>