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 |
| 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 |