Introduction to Project Terminology – OCS, DSC, DSS, DC

There are several terms being for some time used internally for the project I think is timely to introduce publicly.
OCS is Online Community Service. This is any web service which has a community component no matter connected it to XdbE or not. OCS can be a social network, photo site, blog host, wiki, etc. Interchangable with more common but less precise term Social Network.
DSC is Data Source Clinet. This is a special application working inside the OCS intranet, which connects that OCS to XdbE DS Network. DSC knows how to send data, how to encrypt/decrypt data, how to interpret a response from XdbE DS Network. As an input DSC takes clean users data from OCS core software.
DSS is Data Source Server. This application has an inverse functionality compare to DSC and works in conjunction with it. It accepts data clarification requests from XDBE DS Network, decrypts them and provides clean requests to OCS core software. OCS core provides responses through DSC in the manner described above.
DC is Data Client. This is an external entity which requests user data from XdbE DS Network. This can be of course installed at OCS or at any other client interested in recieveing the data. It provides authorisation and identification as well as follows built-in load balancing algorythm.
Further reading can be found in XdbE Wiki.