Vocabulary

Concept

Definition

Comments

Access Point

a service that can send and receive Peppol documents.

Business Card

Contains business information meta-data about a Participant, for example the legal entity name and address, identifiers, etc.

Business Card Service

A service that provides the Business Card for a Participant. In Peppol, this role is performed by the SMP.

Capability Metadata Service

A service that provides metadata about the capabilities of a Participant, including which document type/process type combinations it supports and which Access Point to send these using which transport protocol. In Peppol these are the SMPs

Data store

a repository for persistently storing and managing collections of data.

Location Discovery Service

A service that takes in information about a Participant and provides the URL of the Capability Metadata or Business Card Service for that Participant as registered in the Metadata Service Location Registry. In Peppol, this is done using DNS.

Metadata Service Location Registry

Contains a mapping of Participants to the URL of their Capability Metadata Service and Business Card Service. In Peppol, this is the SML.

Participant

An entity, typically a business or government, which sends and/or receives business document, e.g. invoices. In a four-corner model network Corner 1 (C1) and Corner 4 (C4) are both participants.

Peppol Directory

a searchable collection of Business Cards.

Privacy-sensitive data

data that may be privacy sensitive, although that sensitivity may depend on the jurisdiction. Examples could include company name, address, contact information, etc.

Privacy-sensitive transport-related data

data that is both privacy-sensitive and transport-related. Special care must be taken with this data, because by its nature it needs to be both publicly accessible and awarded special privacy treatment (for instance being stored inside its jurisdiction) at the same time. It is not clear if any data like this exists.

Registrar

An actor that operates a Registration Service. In Peppol this currently is the EC.

Registration Service

A service to manage the data of a Participant in the Metadata Service Location Registry with an authentication and authorization mechanism. It provides access into the Metadata Service Location Registry.A service to manage the data of a Participant in the Metadata Service Location Registry with an authentication and authorization mechanism. It provides access into the Metadata Service Location Registry.

Registration Agent

An actor that acts on behalf of the Participant to manage its registration in the Metadata Service Location Registry through a Registrar’s Registration Service but does not operate their own Registration Service. In Peppol the SMP Service Providers are Registration Agents.

Transport-related data

data that is used for transporting documents. This includes data in the Discovery Service, Registration Service and parts of the Service Metadata Capability Service.