4.2 Abbreviations
AMEP | Automated Message Exchange Protocol |
ACA | Appointed Certification Agency |
AVS | Allowed Value Set |
BP | Business Profile |
BWARM | Bulk Communication of Work and Recording Metadata |
CISAC | Confédération internationale des sociétés d'auteurs et compositeurs, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (see cisac.org) |
CA | Certification Agency |
CT | Conformance Tester |
DAW | Digital Audio Workstation |
DDEX | Digital Data Exchange |
DSIG | Digital Signature |
DSP | Digital Service Provider (incudes Mobile Service Providers) |
DSR | Digital Sales Reporting |
ERN | Electronic Release Notification |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol (FTP specifically includes SFTP) |
GRid | Global Release Identifier |
HTTP | Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP specifically includes HTTPS) |
HTTPS | Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol |
IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission (see iec.ch) |
ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation (see iso.org) |
MEAD | Media Enrichment And Description |
MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
MWL | Musical Works Licensing |
MWN | Musical Works Notification |
MRBV | Multi-Record-Block Variant |
PCA | Private Certification Agency |
Portable Document Format | |
PIE | Party Identification and Enrichment |
REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
RIN | Recording Information Notification |
SFTP | Secure FTP |
SRBV | Single-Record-Block Variant |
TIS | Territory Information System (a CISAC Standard) |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
UGC | User-generated content |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
XSD | XML Schema Definition |
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium (see w3c.org) |
WS | Web Service |