Meaning

Isonym, which is Greek for "equal name", is defined to be the globally unique and public name of entities in digital supply chains.

Purpose

Isonym provides an open-source method for binding GS1 and ISO standard identifiers with publicly-verifiable parties to facilitate secure privacy-compliant payment transactions within digital supply chains.

In media distribution systems, intellectual property (IP) rights owners (e.g. writers, artists, performers, publishers) identified with an ISNI can be disambiguated from other rights owners across the entire spectrum of Creative Industries. For industrial supply chains, transacting parties identified with an ISNI can exchange goods and services identied by GS1; with guaranteed immutability and auditability of transactions. 

Isonym uses artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology to provide a global recordation service using domain names.

Background

The following is a list of International Standard Identifiers used within digital supply chains to distribute and track digital content, goods, and services:

• ISBN- International Standard Book Number (ISO 2108:2005)
• ISMN - International Standard Music Number (ISO 10957:2009)
• ISWC - International Standard Musical Work Code (ISO 15707:2001)
• ISRC - International Standard Recording Code (ISO 3901:2001)
• ISSN- International Standard Serial Number (ISO 3297:2007)
• ISAN - International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISO 15706-1:2002)
• ISTC - International Standard Text Code (ISO 21047:2009)
• ISNI - International Standard Name Identifier (ISO 27729:2012)
• DOI - Digital Object Identifier (ISO 26324:2012)
• GS1 - Global Standards One