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 === Browsing Context Provider (BCP) ===
-A Browsing Context Provider is a BrowserID IdP with additional properties. This means a BCP provides the basic BrowserID IdP items:
+A Browsing Context Provider is the service that, upon user login, provides the context for the user's Web experience: the user's selected services identities. A BCP is a BrowserID IdP with additional properties to enable the service discovery portion. Thus, a BCP provides BrowserID parameters:
 * a public key that is the root of trust for that domain
-* a login web content page where users authenticate in whatever way the BCP chooses
+* a login content page where users authenticate in whatever way the BCP chooses
-* a provisioning web content page that provides authenticated users with a certificate of their identity
+* a provisioning content page where authenticated users receive a certificate of their identity
-and, in addition to this:
+In addition, to this, the BCP provides:
+* a directory service that indicates the user's personalized services.
-* a discovery ID-attached-service URL that provides the user's set of personalized service endpoints.
 === ID-attached Services ===