Learner Profile - PAPICodings, API & Protocols

PAPI codings. A PAPI record may be coded in a PAPI coding. The data interchange is facilitated among data exchange participants by an agreed coding specification.
PAPI Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The API is a control transfer mechanism (control is transferred from caller to callee) that affects data interchange.
PAPI protocols. The protocols are both control transfer and data transfer mechanisms.

“A conforming implementation shall include one or more bindings to codings, APIs, and/or protocols.”