Glossary
One-line definitions so the rest of the site can stay terse.
Personas and organisations
| Term |
Meaning |
| PSP |
Principal Submitting Person — the external applicant who compiles and submits applications and responds to queries. |
| CMU |
Silicon Island's local authority (the operator of SISS). |
| CMU Officer |
Internal coordinator / administrator within CMU. |
| ATD / ATL |
Technical agencies or departments that review submissions against their own standards. The CSV calls this group "Internal/External Technical Agencies". |
| SIRP |
Silicon Island Review Panel — reviews submissions against the local plan / masterplan / UDP. |
| OSC |
One Stop Centre — the approval body that CMU compiles information for. |
| Auditor |
External read-only role for inspecting logs and decisions. |
Submission artifacts
| Term |
Meaning |
| Kertas Perakuan |
Consolidated approval document assembled from department outcomes. Digitally signed by multiple signatories. |
| SIGL |
Compliance certificate issued after planning checks pass. |
| Surat Sokongan |
Letter of support / endorsement produced during the review cycle. |
| Borang |
Malaysian standard application forms attached to submissions (e.g., Borang A, Borang B). |
| LCP |
Layout / Construction Plan — the principal planning document in a submission. |
| UDP |
Urban Development Plan — masterplan reference used for zoning checks. |
| KM |
The core planning submission workflow — what M2 delivers end-to-end. |
Technical terms
| Term |
Meaning |
| HITL |
Human-in-the-loop — AI proposes, a human decides. No auto-approval anywhere in SISS. |
| PAdES |
PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures — the signature format used for all issued certificates. Verifiable in standard PDF readers. |
| RAG |
Retrieval-Augmented Generation — LLM calls enriched with relevant documents retrieved from a vector store (SIRP rule corpus, comment library, prior cases). |
| IFC |
Industry Foundation Classes — the open BIM file format SISS consumes. |
| XKT |
The xeokit tile format used by the in-browser BIM viewer. |
| SLO |
Service Level Objective — target for availability or latency the system must meet. |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement — contractual turnaround time for a review step. |
| RBAC |
Role-Based Access Control — permissions granted via roles, scoped by tenant / department. |
| RLS |
Row-Level Security — AlloyDB feature enforcing tenant / department scoping at query time. |
| CMEK |
Customer-Managed Encryption Keys — encryption keys held in customer-owned KMS. |
| TSA |
Timestamping Authority — RFC 3161 service that timestamps signatures. |
| Temporal |
The workflow engine that owns every long-running state machine in SISS. |
| Pub/Sub |
Google Cloud Pub/Sub — the event bus connecting services. |
| xeokit |
Open-source in-browser BIM viewer used in the SPA. |