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https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2020/NIST.IR.8301-draft.pdf

Terminology

A project is an active entity that has project member(s) and produces project result(s). Its member(s) use project sites to coordinate and disseminate result(s). A project does not need to be a formal legal entity. Key terms relating to project are:

  • Project members are the group of one or more people or companies who work together to attempt to produce project results. Some FLOSS projects may have different kinds of members, with different roles, but that's outside our scope.
  • Project results are what the project members work together to produce as their end goal. Normally this is software, but project results may include other things as well. Criteria that refer to "software produced by the project" are referring to project results.
  • Project sites are the sites dedicated to supporting the development and dissemination of project results, and include the project website, repository, and download sites where applicable (see sites_https).
  • The project website, aka project homepage, is the main page on the world wide web (WWW) that a new user would typically visit to see information about the project; it may be the same as the project's repository site (this is often true on GitHub).
  • The project repository manages and stores the project results and revision history of the project results. This is also referred to as the project source repository, because we only require managing and storing of the editable versions, not of automatically generated results (in many cases generated results are not stored in a repository).

blockchain; cryptoasset; cryptocurrency; data portability; decentralized governance; digital asset;
106 digital token; distributed ledger; fintech; off-chain scaling; self-hosting; smart contract; state
107 channel; tokenization; transaction confidentiality; verifiable data; wallet; zero-knowledge proof.

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