This page lists some of the terms and abbreviations often used in PEPPOL. If you are missing a term drop me a note.
| Term | Meaning | Comments |
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| AISBL | Association internationale sans but lucratif | A non-profit origanisation under Belgium law. See this page for details (in French). |
| AP | AccessPoint | The technical connector of a software solution that is capable of sending and/or receiving PEPPOL business documents |
| AS2 | Application Statement 2 | Transport protocol specified in RFC 4130. |
| AS4 | Application Statement 4 | Transport protocol specified by OASIS. It was used in the eSENS project and adopted by CEF. PEPPOL is currently investigating a transition to AS4. |
| BIS | Business Interoperability Specification | A PEPPOL created specification that define how a business document exchange should take place and how the UBL elements are bound to semantical elements. |
| BLR | Business Level Response | Business document to be exchanged stating business level validation results (see also MLR). PEPPOL does not contain a single BLR - it contains an Order Response and an Invoice Response. |
| Business Card | The document type for describing the non-functional aspects of a PEPPOL participant for listing in the PD. | |
| CEF | Connecting Europe Facility | An instrument of the EC for funding and informing about e-Delivery, e-Invoicing etc. solutions. See https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/connecting-europe-facility. |
| CII | UN/CEFACT Cross Industry Invoice | One of the two formats identified by the EN to be supported. |
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CIPA
deprecated | The previous PEPPOL reference implementation now maintained by EC. See https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/solution/cipa-e-delivery. Superseded by CEF - https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eDelivery. | |
| CIUS | Core Invoice User Specification | Defines how to adopt the EN to local requirements. Billing BIS 3 is a CIUS of the EN. |
| CMB | Change Management Board | The PEPPOL internal team that makes decisions. There is one CMB for TICC, PoACC and PrACC. |
| DNS | Domain Name System | Basic part of Internet technology that maps domain names to IP addresses for technical routing. Used by SML. |
| EC | European Commission | Generic term for all entities directly or indirectly related to them (DG DIGIT etc.). |
| EDEC | eDelivery Community | The successor of TICC within OpenPEPPOL |
| EN | European Norm | Usually this refers to the EN 16931-1, the European Norm on e-Invoicing. |
| F2F | Face to face | This defines an event where people are meeting in real (face to face) and not just virtually in telephone conferences. |
| IRM | Invoice Response Message | Special BLR for invoices. |
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LIME
deprecated | Lightweight Message Exchange | Legacy PEPPOL transport protocol for pulling messages. Has been discontinued. |
| MC | Managing Committee | The PEPPOL managing board. |
| MDN | Message Disposition Notification | The technical receipt of acknowledgment for AS2 transmissions defined in RFC 3798. |
| MLR | Message Level Response | Business document to be exchanged stating technical validation results (see also BLR) |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards | International standardization organisation. See https://www.oasis-open.org/. |
| OpenPEPPOL AISBL | The organisation responsible for maintaining PEPPOL standards and running the transport infrastructure. See http://peppol.eu/. See also AISBL. | |
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PD
in progress | PEPPOL Directory | A central PEPPOL service that should help in mapping PEPPOL participant IDs to the participant names and countries. |
| PEPPOL | Pan European Public Procurement On-Line | This is the European project that initiated all this. Started as a European Large Scale Pilot and is now maintained by OpenPEPPOL AISBL. |
| PoACC | Post-Award Coordinating Community | PEPPOL internal team to manage the post-award assets. See https://peppol.eu/get-involved/join-a-community/ |
| PID | Participant identifier | This is the technical identifier for the sender and receiver of a document exchange. This is also used in an SMP as a so called "service group". |
| PrACC | Pre-Award Coordinating Community | PEPPOL internal team to manage the pre-award assets. See https://peppol.eu/get-involved/join-a-community/ |
| SBD | Standard Business Document | A generic XML envelope structure that defines a header and a payload. See also SBDH. |
| SBDH | Standard Business Document Header | The header part inside the SBD. |
| SMK | Test version of the SML ('K' comes before 'L'). Currently operated by CEF. | |
| SML | Service Metadata Locator | Central PEPPOL service that modifies the DNS. Currently operated by CEF. |
| SMP | Service Metadata Publisher | Distributed PEPPOL registry. Used to lookup participant endpoint URLs. See https://github.com/phax/phoss-smp for an Open Source implementation. |
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START
deprecated | Secure Trusted Asynchronous Reliable Transport | Legacy PEPPOL transport protocol, based on the Webservice stack. Was superseded by AS2. |
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TCT
deprecated | TICC Codelist Team | Special team that takes care of the "PEPPOL Policy for the use of identifiers" as well as the codelists required for document exchange. |
| TIA | Transport Infrastructure Agreement | The contract between the PEPPOL user and the PEPPOL Authority |
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TICC
deprecated | Transport Infrastructure Coordinating Community | PEPPOL internal team to manage the technical assets. See https://peppol.eu/get-involved/join-a-community/. Now called EDEC. |
| UBL | Universal Business Language | An OASIS standard that defines certain XML based document types used in PEPPOL and the EN. |