Networking Acronyms & Abbreviations

A
AHS- Abstract Handle Specification

ASN.1- Abstract Syntax Notation One

AUP- Acceptable Use Policy

ACL- Access Control List

ACK- acknowledgment

AMP- Active Monitor Present

ADPCM- Adaptive Pulse Code Modulation

ARP- Address Resolution Protocol

ADMD- Administration Management Domain

AD- Administrative Domain

ACF- Advanced Communications Facility

APPC- Advanced Program-to-Program Communication

ARPANET- Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ANSI- American National Standards Institute

ASCII- American Standard Code for Information Interchange

AM- Amplitude Modulation

AARP- AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol

ADSP- AppleTalk Data Stream Protocol

AEP- AppleTalk Echo Protocol

AFI- AppleTalk Filing Interface

AFP- AppleTalk Filing Protocol

ARAP- AppleTalk Remote Access Protocol

ASP- AppleTalk Session Protocol

ATP- AppleTalk Transaction Protocol

AES- Application Environment Specification

API- Application Program Interface

AOW- Asia and Oceania Workshop

ACSE- Association Control Service Element

ABM- Asynchronous Balanced Mode

ATM- Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AFI- Authority and Format Identifier

ARQ- Automatic Repeat Request

ARS- Automatic Route Selection

AS- Autonomous System

AUI- Auxiliary Unit Interface

B

BER- Basic Encoding Rules

B-ISDN- Basic-rate ISDN

BTAM- Basic Telecommunications Access Method

BNC- Bayonet Nut Connector

BIND- Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BSD- Berkeley Software Distribution

BCD- Binary Coded Decimal

BSC- Binary Synchronous Communications

BOF- Birds Of a Feather

BGP- Border Gateway Protocol

BBS- Bulletin Board System

C

CWIS- Campus Wide Information System

CD- Carrier Detect

CSMA/CA- Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD- Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

CNode- Catalog Node

CRT- Cathode Ray Tube

CO- Central Office

CHAP- Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CSU- Channel Service Unit

CSDC- Circuit-Switched Digital Capability

CIDR- Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CTS- Clear To Send

CNIDR- Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval

CMOT- CMIP Over TCP

CNI- Coalition for Networked Information

coax- coaxial cable

CTERM- Command Terminal Protocol

CIX- Commercial Information Exchange

COTS- Commercial Off-The-Shelf

CCR- Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery

CCIS- Common Channel Interoffice Signaling

CMIP- Common Management Information Protocol

CMIS- Common Management Information Services

CATV- Community Antenna Television

CERT- Computer Emergency Response Team

CIT- Computer Integrated Telephony

CONS- Connection Oriented Network Service

CLNP- Connectionless Network Protocol

CBX- Computerized Branch Exchange

CLTP- Connectionless Transport Protocol

CAM- Content Addressable Memory

CVSD- Continuous Variable-Slope Delta modulation

COSINE- Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe

UTC- Coordinated Universal Time

CCIRN- Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks

CNRI- Corporation for National Research Initiatives

COS- Corporation for Open Systems

CREN- Corporation for Research and Educational Networking

CICS- Customer Information Control System

CPE- Customer Premises Equipment

CRC- Cyclic Redundancy Check

D

DCE- Data Circuit-terminating Equipment

DEK- Data Encryption Key

DES- Data Encryption Standard

DNIC- Data Network Identification Code

DSU- Data Service Unit

DSR- Data Set Ready

DTE- Data Terminal Equipment

DTR- Data Terminal Ready

DDP- Datagram Delivery Protocol

DDS- Dataphone Digital Service

DARPA- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DDN- Defense Data Network

DISA- Defense Information Systems Agency

DACS- Digital Access and Cross-connect System

DCM- Digital Circuit Multiplication

DELNI- Digital Local Network Interconnect

DNA- Digital Network Architecture

DTS- Digital Termination Systems

DMA- Direct Memory Access

DAP- Directory Access Protocol

DSA- Directory System Agent

DUA- Directory User Agent

DOS- Disk Operating System

DV algorithm- Distance-Vector algorithm

DCE- Distributed Computing Environment

DDP- Distributed Data Processing

DIA/DCA- Document Interchange Architecture/Document Content Architecture

DNS- Domain Name System

DIS- Draft International Standard

DTMF- Dual Tone Multi-Frequency

DAR- Dynamic Adaptive Routing

DHCP- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DAS- Dynamically Assigned Socket

E

EMI- Electromagnetic Interference

EDI- Electronic Data Interchange

EFF- Electronic Frontier Foundation

EIA- Electronic Industries Association

ESS- Electronic Switching System

EOA- End Of Address

EOB- End Of Block

EOM- End Of Message

ETX- End of Text

EOT- End Of Transmission

ES- End System

ES-IS- End System to Intermediate System

EID- Endpoint Identifier

EMA- Enterprise Management Architecture

ELAP- EtherTalk Link Access Protocol

EARN- European Academic and Research Network

ECMA- European Computer Manufacturers Association

EWOS- European Workshop for Open Systems

XO transaction- Exactly-Once transaction

XID- Exchange Identification

EBCDIC- Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

ESF- Extended Superframe Format

EGP- Exterior Gateway Protocol

XDR- External Data Representation

EHF- Extremely High Frequency

ELF- Extremely Low Frequency

F

FCC- Federal Communications Commission

FIX- Federal Information Exchange

FIPS- Federal Information Processing Standards

FNC- Federal Networking Council

FDDI- Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FTAM- File Transfer, Access, and Management

FTP- File Transfer Protocol

FIFO- First In First Out

FEC- Forward Error Correction

FLEA- Four Letter Extended Acronym

FCS- Frame Check Sequence

FDM- Frequency Division Multiplexing

FM- Frequency Modulation

FDX- Full Duplex

FQDN- Fully Qualified Domain Name

G

GAP- Gateway Access Protocol

GOSIP- Government OSI Profile

GIF- Graphical Interchange Format

GMT- Greenwich Mean Time

GUS- Guide to the Use of Standards

H

HDX- Half Duplex

hex- hexadecimal

HFS- Hierarchical File System

HF- High Frequency

HDLC- High-level Data Link Control

HPCC- High Performance Computing and Communications

HIPPI- High Performance Parallel Interface

HASP- Houston Automatic Spooling Program

I

IEEE- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IC- Integrated Circuit

ISDN- Integrated Services Digital Network

IVDT- Integrated Voice/Data Terminal

IDRP- Inter-Domain Routing Protocol

IDPR- Inter-Domain Policy Routing

IINREN- Interagency Interim National Research and Education Network

IEC- Interexchange Carrier

IDU- Interface Data Unit

IMP- Interface Message Processor

IGP- Interior Gateway Protocol

IS- Intermediate System

IS-IS- Intermediate System to Intermediate System

IONL- Internal Organization of the Network Layer

ISO- International Organization for Standardization

IS- International Standard

ITU- International Telecommunications Union

ITU-TSS- International Telecommunications Union--- Telecommunications Standards Sector

ITB- International Time Bureau

IAB- Internet Architecture Board

IANA- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol

IESG- Internet Engineering Steering Group

IETF- Internet Engineering Task Force

IEN- Internet Experiment Note

IGRP- Internet Gateway Routing Protocol

IGMP- Internet Group Multicast Protocol

IMAP- Internet Message Access Protocol

IMR- Internet Monthly Report

IP- Internet Protocol

IPCP- Internet Protocol Control Protocol

IR- Internet Registry

IRC- Internet Relay Chat

IRSG- Internet Research Steering Group

IRTF- Internet Research Task Force

ISOC- Internet Society

IPX- Internetwork Packet Exchange

INTAP- Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing

ISODE- ISO Development Environment

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