2 Organisation of the document

This part of the DSR standard comprises eight clauses and one annex. Clauses 1–3 provide a general introduction and the scope of this part of the DSR standard. Clause 4 provides the core terms, with definitions, and the abbreviations that are used in the DSR standard. Clause 5 then defines the choreography for sending Sales/Usage Reports created in accordance with the DSR standard.

Clause 6 describes the overall structure of all the Sales/Usage Reports that are defined in the Digital Sales Reporting Message Suite with Clause 7 defining the technical details for creating Sales/Usage Reports constructed in accordance with the DSR standard. Finally, Clause 8 defines how to send a Sales/Usage Report to a business partner using cloud-based storage.

Annex A provides release notes which describe the differences between this version of this part of the DSR standard and previous versions.