Adjust color rendering for your camera in Camera Raw

According to the help node with the above subject, one can embed profiles into TIFF, JPEG, PSD and DNG files and select them within Camera Raw 4.
I can assign profiles to all excepto DNG files, since DNG files cannot be saved and thus cannot be persistently be assigned a profile (say created with ColorEyes 20/20 camera profiler software). How then can I assign a profile to a raw image? Is the help incorrect or mis-written?
Thanks,
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Changes introduced with DNG version 1.1.0.0 included new tags AsShotICCProfile (+ AsShotPreProfileMatrix) and CurrentICCProfile (+ CurrentPreProfileMatrix).
If a camera or editor uses these, are the ColorMatrix1 (and if required ColorMatrix2) tags required to be present anyone, for example for ACR to use, while these xICCProfile tags are an optional alternative? How does it all fit together?
AsShotICCProfile:
"This tag contains an ICC profile that, in conjunction with the AsShotPreProfileMatrix tag, provides the camera manufacturer with a way to specify a default color rendering from camera color space coordinates (linear reference values) into the ICC profile connection space.
"The ICC profile connection space is an output referred colorimetric space, whereas the other color calibration tags in DNG specify a conversion into a scene referred colorimetric space. This means that the rendering in this profile should include any desired tone and gamut mapping needed to convert between scene referred values and output referred values.
"DNG readers that have their own tone and gamut mapping controls (such as Adobe Camera Raw) will probably ignore this tag pair".
CurrentICCProfile:
"This tag is used in conjunction with the CurrentPreProfileMatrix tag.
"The CurrentICCProfile and CurrentPreProfileMatrix tags have the same purpose and usage as the AsShotICCProfile and AsShotPreProfileMatrix tag pair, except they are for use by raw file editors rather than camera manufacturers".

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