Glossary of Internet Terms
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AAP |
Address Allocation Protocol |
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AD |
Area Director |
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ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
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AfNOG |
African Network Operations Group |
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AfriNIC |
African Network Information Centre |
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API |
Application Programming Interface |
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APNIC |
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre |
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ARIN |
American Registry for Internet Numbers |
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ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol |
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AS |
Autonomous System |
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ASN |
Autonomous System Number |
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ASP |
Application Service Provider |
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ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
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BCP |
Best Current Practices |
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BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol |
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BoF |
Birds of a Feather |
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ccTLD |
country code Top-Level Domain |
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CGN |
Carrier Grade NAT (Network Address Translation) |
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CDN |
Content Distribution Network: a network of servers that improves the timeliness and availability of Internet content. (sometimes also called a “Content Delivery Network”) |
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CPE |
Customer Provided Equipment |
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DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
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DDoS |
Distributed Denial of Service |
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DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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DHT |
Distributed Hash Table |
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DNS |
Domain Name System |
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DNSSEC |
Domain Name System Security Extensions |
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DOCSIS |
Data over Cable Service Interface Specification |
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DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line |
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DTN |
Delay-Tolerant Networking |
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EPP |
Extensible Provisioning Protocol |
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FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions |
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FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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gTLD |
generic Top-Level Domain |
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HIP |
Host Identity Protocol |
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HMAC |
Hash Message Authentication Code |
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HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
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IAB |
Internet Architecture Board |
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IAD |
IETF Administrative Director |
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IANA |
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
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IAOC |
IETF Administrative Oversight Committee |
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IASA |
IETF Administrative Support Activity |
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ICANN |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
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ICMP |
Internet Control Message Protocol |
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ID |
Internet Draft |
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IDN |
Internationalized Domain Name |
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IDNAbis |
Internationalized Domain Name in Applications (Revised) |
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IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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IESG |
Internet Engineering Steering Group |
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IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
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IP |
Internet Protocol |
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IPR |
Intellectual Property Rights |
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IPsec |
Internet Protocol security |
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IPv4 |
Internet Protocol version 4 |
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IPv6 |
Internet Protocol version 6 |
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IRSG |
Internet Research Steering Group |
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IRTF |
Internet Research Task Force |
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IS-IS |
Intermediate system to intermediate system |
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ISOC |
Internet Society |
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ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
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ITU-T |
International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector |
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IXP |
Internet Exchange Point |
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JWT |
Joint Working Team |
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LACNIC |
Latin American and Caribbean Network Coordination Centre |
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LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
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LDP |
Label Distribution Protocol |
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LTE |
Long Term Evolution is a project of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to define the latest standard for mobile network technology |
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LIR |
Local Internet Registry |
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L2TP |
Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol |
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MAC |
Message Authentication Code |
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MD5 |
Message Digest Algorithm |
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MPLS |
Multiprotocol Label Switching |
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MPLS TE |
Multiprotocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering |
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MPLS-TP |
Multiprotocol Label Switching-Transport Profile |
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MTU |
Maximum Transmission Unit |
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NAT |
Network Address Translation |
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NAT-PMP |
Network Address Translation-Port Mapping Protocol |
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NAT-PT |
Network Address Translation-Protocol Translation |
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NOC |
Network Operations Centre |
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NomCom |
Nominations Committee |
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NREN |
National Research and Education Network |
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NSF |
National Science Foundation |
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NSRC |
Network Startup Resource Centre |
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OASIS |
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
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OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
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OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model |
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OS |
Operating System |
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OSS |
Open Source Software |
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QoS |
Quality of Service |
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PI |
Provider Independent |
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PIM |
Protocol Independent Multicast |
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PIM-SM |
Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode |
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PKIX |
Public-Key Infrastructure |
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POP |
Point of Presence |
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P2P |
Peer-to-Peer |
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RFC |
Request For Comments |
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RFID |
Radio-Frequency Identification |
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RFP |
Request For Proposals |
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RG |
Research Group |
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RIPE NCC |
Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre |
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RIR |
Regional Internet Registry |
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SDO |
Standards Development Organization |
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SDP |
Session Description Protocol |
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SHA-1 |
Secure Hash Algorithm |
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SIP |
Session Initiation Protocol |
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SNMP |
Simple Network Management Protocol |
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SSH |
Secure Shell (protocol) |
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STUN |
Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol [UDP] Through Network Address Translators [NATs] |
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TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
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TLD |
Top-Level Domain |
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TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
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T-MPLS |
Transport-Multiprotocol Label Switching |
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TTL |
Time To Live |
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UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
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UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
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UPnP |
Universal Plug and Play |
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URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
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URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
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VoIP |
Voice over Internet Protocol |
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VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
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VSAT |
Very Small Aperture Terminal |
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W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
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WG |
Working Group |
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WLAN |
Wireless Local Area Network |
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WPAN |
Wireless Personal Area Network |
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XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
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XML-RPC |
Extensible Markup Language – Remote Procedure Call |