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  "name": "PRISM Commerce Glossary",
  "version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "title": "PRISM Commerce — Canonical Specification, Version 1.1",
    "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22978762"
  },
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "note": "Only Market Access Enablement has an approved Russian normative equivalent (DEC-016, DEC-028).",
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      "id": "term-proxy-retail-with-inventoryless-sourcing-model",
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      "id": "term-mor-inventoryless-retail",
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      "id": "term-merchant-of-record-cross-border-retail-platform",
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      "id": "term-asset-light-global-retail-platform",
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      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/asset-light-global-retail-platform/",
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      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
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        "term-asset-light-global-retail-platform-with-distributed-expert-curation"
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      "status": "normative",
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      "id": "term-asset-light-global-retail-platform-with-distributed-expert-curation",
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      "definition_source": "SPEC §10.2",
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        "term-asset-light-global-retail-platform",
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      "status": "normative",
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      "id": "term-virtual-inventory",
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      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "An assortment presented without requiring advance purchase and physical stocking by the platform of all displayed goods.",
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      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
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      "definition": "A subject-matter specialist whose principal contribution is knowledge, reputation, community, and judgment; the ECC selects products and sources, forms and adapts assortments, improves product records, provides guidance, understands the relevant demand and pricing environment, and may generate demand without investing in owned inventory or becoming an independent seller in the base model.",
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      "id": "term-expert-curated-storefront",
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      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "A commerce destination built around domain expertise and trust, selection quality, professional guidance, market relevance, and connection to a specialist community inside the platform.",
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      "definition_source": "SPEC §10.2",
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        "term-expert-commerce-curator",
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        "DEC-008",
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      "status": "normative",
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      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
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      "id": "term-distributed-expert-curation-network",
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      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/distributed-expert-curation-network/",
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      "russian_normative_equivalent": null,
      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "The network of ECCs and their curated environments.",
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      "definition_source": "SPEC §10.2",
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      "related_terms": [
        "term-expert-commerce-curator",
        "term-expert-curated-storefront"
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      "decision_reference": [
        "DEC-008"
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      "status": "normative",
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      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
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      "id": "term-market-access-enablement",
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      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/market-access-enablement/",
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      "russian_normative_equivalent": "инфраструктурное обеспечение доступа к неохваченным рынкам",
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      "definition": "Infrastructure enabling suppliers and products to reach markets they do not serve directly, or serve only to a limited extent, because local payment, logistics, customs, fulfillment, compliance, or customer-service infrastructure is absent. It must not be used to frame circumvention of legal, contractual, regulatory, geographic, or commercial restrictions.",
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      "definition_source": "SPEC §10.2",
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        "PRISM Commerce is market-access infrastructure and must not be positioned as a mechanism for circumventing seller, geographic, regulatory, contractual or commercial restrictions.",
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        "term-prism-commerce"
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      "decision_reference": [
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      "id": "term-platform-operator",
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      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/platform-operator/",
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      "language": "en",
      "russian_normative_equivalent": null,
      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "The Platform Operator operates the interface and coordinates the platform processes. Its functions may include catalogue presentation, checkout, order orchestration, sourcing coordination, fulfillment coordination, customer support, returns, and claims.",
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      "definition_source": "SPEC §5.3",
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        "term-retailer",
        "term-merchant-of-record"
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      "decision_reference": [],
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      "version": "1.0",
      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
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      "last_verified": "2026-09-22"
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      "id": "term-retailer",
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      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/retailer/",
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      "abbreviation": null,
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      "russian_normative_equivalent": null,
      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "The Retailer is the customer-facing retail counterparty in the PRISM base architecture. It makes the retail offer to the customer and bears the customer-facing obligations assigned to it by the actual contractual and legal structure.",
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      "definition_source": "SPEC §5.3",
      "provenance_class": "IND",
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      "related_terms": [
        "term-platform-operator",
        "term-merchant-of-record"
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      "frozen": false,
      "decision_reference": [],
      "status": "explanatory",
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      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
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      "id": "term-merchant-of-record",
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      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/merchant-of-record/",
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      "language": "en",
      "russian_normative_equivalent": null,
      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "The Merchant of Record is the entity identified in the actual payment and commercial structure as responsible for the customer transaction. The MoR description must be used only where the factual contractual, payment, and regulatory structure supports it.",
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      "provenance_class": "IND",
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      "related_terms": [
        "term-platform-operator",
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        "term-mor-inventoryless-retail"
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      "frozen": false,
      "decision_reference": [],
      "status": "explanatory",
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      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
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      "id": "term-marketplace",
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      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/marketplace/",
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      "abbreviation": null,
      "language": "en",
      "russian_normative_equivalent": null,
      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "Multiple sellers may transact with customers through a platform.",
      "definition_kind": "contextual",
      "definition_source": "SPEC §9, typical organizing relationship",
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      "related_terms": [
        "term-dropshipping",
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        "term-proxy-buying"
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      "frozen": false,
      "decision_reference": [],
      "status": "explanatory",
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      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
      "source_section": "SPEC §9, §10.1",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-22"
    },
    {
      "id": "term-dropshipping",
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      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/dropshipping/",
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      "abbreviation": null,
      "language": "en",
      "russian_normative_equivalent": null,
      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "A seller may transmit an order to a supplier that ships directly to the customer.",
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      "definition_source": "SPEC §9, typical organizing relationship (classic dropshipping)",
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      "related_terms": [
        "term-marketplace",
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      "frozen": false,
      "decision_reference": [],
      "status": "explanatory",
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      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
      "source_section": "SPEC §9, §10.1",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-22"
    },
    {
      "id": "term-forwarding-service",
      "slug": "forwarding-service",
      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/forwarding-service/",
      "label": "forwarding service",
      "abbreviation": null,
      "language": "en",
      "russian_normative_equivalent": null,
      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "The service principally receives or transports goods that the customer has purchased elsewhere.",
      "definition_kind": "contextual",
      "definition_source": "SPEC §9, typical organizing relationship",
      "provenance_class": "IND",
      "terminology_layer": "industry-context",
      "scope_boundaries": [],
      "related_terms": [
        "term-marketplace",
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      "frozen": false,
      "decision_reference": [],
      "status": "explanatory",
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      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
      "source_section": "SPEC §9, §10.1",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-22"
    },
    {
      "id": "term-proxy-buying",
      "slug": "proxy-buying",
      "url": "https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/proxy-buying/",
      "label": "proxy buying",
      "abbreviation": null,
      "language": "en",
      "russian_normative_equivalent": null,
      "russian_equivalent_status": "unavailable",
      "definition": "A service may purchase as an agent or intermediary on the customer's instruction.",
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      "definition_source": "SPEC §9, typical organizing relationship (classic proxy buying)",
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      "related_terms": [
        "term-marketplace",
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        "term-forwarding-service",
        "term-proxy-retail-with-inventoryless-sourcing-model"
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      "frozen": false,
      "decision_reference": [],
      "status": "explanatory",
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      "source_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22978762",
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      "last_verified": "2026-09-22"
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}