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OPTEROM Network

Core Concepts

Status: Planned

Core Concepts

Section titled “Core Concepts”

OPTEROM is built around a few understandable business objects. These concepts apply whether a person uses an OPTEROM-connected website or an independent software product.

  • Company identity: the identifiable legal entity, with jurisdiction, official identifier and source-backed facts.
  • Network participant: a company that has actually joined and established network capabilities. Being indexed in company data is not the same as joining.
  • Representative authority: a particular person’s or application’s permission to perform a defined action on behalf of a company.
  • Capability: a declared supported way to reach or exchange information with a company.
  • Business action: an inquiry, quote, order, response or similar attributable action.
  • Evidence: the source information, signatures, digests, timestamps and status history used to check a claim.

Read Business Identity, Business Actions and Evidence and Trust.