Glossary
DPP & authentication terms
Plain-language definitions for the digital product passport and product-authentication world.
Required by EU law
Industry standards and identifiers
General trade terms
Ownership transfer
A verified person-to-person handover of a product’s ownership, recorded in an immutable HMAC-signed chain.
Certificate of authenticity
The proof, produced by a genuine scan, that a physical item is authentic at the point of purchase.
Chain of custody
The immutable, timestamped record of who has owned a product and when.
Junction’s own vocabulary
JCode™
A unique, cryptographically managed per-item code (QR or NFC) that resolves to a product’s digital identity in Junction.
Aggregator
A batch grouping of codes (a lot) that share an order and enrichment session.
Whitelist
Cryptographically signed, immutable metadata entries bound to a code, readable and writable by authorized partners.
Enrichment
The process of filling blank codes with multilingual product metadata before they reach consumers.
Reactivation
Re-enabling an activated or blocked code so it can be scanned again, for resale or returns.
Scan state
The single state a scanned product resolves to: on the shelf, claimed, wrong hands, blocked, or the open record.
Open record
The digital product passport (DPP) data served from the same code that proves the product is genuine.