5 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

PDF

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