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

Acronyms & Abbreviations in Software Testing

A

ACM Association for Computing Machinery.

AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies.

AIAT Artificial Intelligence Applications Testing.

ANSI American National Standards Institute http://www.ansi.org/

AMC Average Method Complexity

AQAP Allied Quality Assurance Publication

ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers

ASTF Automated Software Test Framework

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATP Acceptance Test Procedure

ASTF Automated software test framework

ATLM Automated testing lifecycle methodology

ATRT Automated test and retest

ATG Automated test generator

ATLM Automated testing lifecycle methodology

AUT Application under test
B
BCS British Computer Society

BERT Bit Error Test (Diagnostic Tests)

BIST Built-in self-test (Diagnostic Tests)

BS British Standard

BONDING Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group

BR Business Requirement

BRS Business Requirement Specification.

BS7925-1 British Standard BS 7925-1 Vocabulary of terms in software testing

BVA Boundary Value Analysis
C
CA Configuration accounting

CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering

CC Configuration control

CDR Critical design review

CE Critical error

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CISP Cardholder information security program

CI Configuration item

CID Configuration identification

CM Configuration management

CMM Capability Maturity Model

CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integrated

CMP Configuration management plan

CMT Configuration Management Tool

COA Cost of achievement

COPS Common Open Policy Service

CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf

COF Cost of failure

CR Change Request

CRC Class, Responsibility, Collaboration

COQ cost of quality

CRUD Create, Read, Update, Delete
D
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DDD Database design document

DDS Data distribution service

DBA Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation

DDS Digital Data System

DES Data -Encryption Standard

DEF Defense Standard

DHS Department of Homeland Security (U.S.)

DDD Detailed Design Document

DFD Data Flow Diagram

DOD Department Of Defense (USA)

DOM Document Object Model

DRE Defect Removal Efficiency

DSDM Dynamic Systems Development Methodology

DTI Department of Trade and Industry —(UK)
E
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association

EIA Electronic Industries Association

ERD Entity Relationship Diagram

ETSI European Telecom Standards Institute
F
FDD Functional Design Document

FDD Feature driven development - software development process. It is one of a number of Agile methods for developing software.

FVT Function verification test

FA Functional audit

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FDA Food and Drug Administration

FnPt Function point

FC Function Count

FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act —(U.S.)

FP Function Point

FTC Federal Trade Commission —(U.S.)
G
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile

GUI Graphical User Interface
H
HCM Hardware configuration management

HIPAA Healthcare Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

HIPO Hierarchy, Input, Processing, Output

HOL Higher Order Logic
I
IDE Integrated Development Environment

IDD Interface design document

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IDL Interface design language

IRC Internet relay chat

I-P-0 Input-Process-Output

IPsec Internet Protocol Security

ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

lSLE Integrated Software Lifecycle Environment

ISO International Organization for Standards
J
JAD Joint Application Development

JTC1 Joint Technical Committee 1
K
KBSA Knowledge-Based Software Assistant

KLOC Thousands of lines of code
L
LCL Lower control limit

LCSAJ Linear Code Sequence And Jump (a software analysis method)

LOC Lines of code

LSRT Long-Sequence Regression Testing
M
MDD Model-driven development (agile model-driven development - AMDD)

MOD Ministry of Defence —(UK)

MoSCoW M - MUST have this; S - SHOULD have this if at all possible; C - COULD have this if it does not affect anything else; W - WON'T have this time but WOULD like in the future.

MTBF Mean Time Between Failure

MTTF Mean Time To Fail

MTTR Mean Time To Repair

MTTCF Mean time to critical failure
N
NCSA National Cyber Security Alliance

NFR Nonfunctional requirements

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NBS National British standard

O
ORD Object Relationship Diagram

OCM Operational configuration management

OSI Open Systems Interconnection
P
PA Physical audit

PCA Performance and Coverage Analysis

PDR Preliminary design review

PERT Program Evaluation and Review technique Diagram

PIR Postimplementation review

PCRTS Problem and Change Request Tracking System

PIM Platform-Independent Model

PIPEDA Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

PIM Platform-independent model

POF Probability of Failure

POST Power- On Self - Test (Diagnostic Tests)

PSI Platform-Specific Implementation

PT Problem Ticket

PTR Problem trouble report
Q
QA Quality Assurance

QC Quality Control

QMS Quality Management System

QoS Quality of Service

QUES Quality Evaluation System
R
RAD Rapid Application Development

RAT Real Application Testing [Abbreviation used by Oracle]

RCA Root cause analysis

RTM Requirements traceability matrix

RFC Request for Change

RFC Request for comments

RFP Request for Proposal

RMI Remote Method Invocation

ROI Return on Investment

RIB Reflexive User Interface Builder

RTM Requirements traceability matrix

RST Reverse Semantic Traceability
S
SA Structured Analysis

SADT Systems Analysis and Design Technique

SCA Static Code Analysis

SC Security Checklist

SCA Source Code Analyzer

SCR Software Change Request

SDK Software Development Kit

SC Standards committee

SDLC Software development life cycle

SDP Software development plan

SEI Software Engineering Institute

SG Standards group

SIR System Investigation Report

SLC Software life cycle

SQS Software quality system

SQSP Software quality system plan

SRR Software requirements review

SDD System and software design document

SMARTS Software Maintenance and Regression Test System

SSH Secure Shell

SOA Service-oriented architecture

STAF Software testing automation framework

Std standard (IEEE designation)

STEP Systematic Test and Evaluation Process

START Structured Testing and Requirements Tool

STL Software testing lifecycle

STR Software trouble report

STR System trouble report

SUT System Under Test
T
TCAT Test Coverage Analysis Tool

TCB Trusted Computing Base

TCDY Test case design yield

TDD Test-driven development

TDGEN Test filelData Generator

TLS The Transport Layer Security

TOE Target of Evaluation

TPT Time Partition Testing

TQC Total quality control

TTCN Testing and Test Control Notation

TTCN-1 Tree and Tabular Combined Notation version 1

TTM Test traceability matrix

TRR Test readiness review
U
UCL upper control limit

UDF unit development folder

UML Unified Modelling Language

UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

UML TP UML Testing Profile

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USM User-based Security Model

UTC Usability-Test Candidate

X
XP eXtreme Programming
V
VE Virtual environment

V&V Verification and validation

VNC Virtual network computing

Acronyms & Abbreviations in Software Development

A
ACM— Association for Computing Machinery

ACS— Access Control Server

AICPA—  American Institute of Certified PublicAccountants

AICPASGP — AICPA Standard of Good Practice

AICPATSC —  AICPA Trust Services Criteria

AMC— Average Method Complexity

API— Application Programming Interface

AQAP  — Allied Quality Assurance Publication

ARS— Automated Reasoning Systems

asap— As Soon As Possible

ASBDC-US— Association of Small Business Development Centers

ASL— Action Specification Language

ASP— Active Server Pages

ATP— Acceptance Test Procedure
B

BIS— Bank for International Settlements

BITS— BITS Framework: Managing Technology Risk for Information Technology ServiceProvider Relationships

BNF— Backus–Naur Form

BOGSAT— Bunch of Guys Sitting Around a Table

BPM— Business Performance Measure

BSA— Business Software Alliance
C

CACM— Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery

CASE— Computer-Aided Software Engineering

CBO— Coupling Between Object Classes

CCM— CORBA Component Model

CERT— Computer Emergency Response Team

CFC— Central Flow Control

CGF— Corporate Governance Framework

CGI— Common Gateway Interface

CIAO— Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office

CIS— Center for Internet Security

COBIT— Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies

COCOMO— Constructive Cost Model

CORBA— Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COSO— Committee on Sponsoring Organizations

CSE— Communications Security Establishment

CWM— Common Warehouse Metamodel
D

DACC— Design Assertion Consistency Checker

DCL— DEC Control Language

DEFSTAN — Defense Standard

DFD— Dataflow Diagram

DHS—Department of Homeland Security (U.S.)

DIT— Depth of Inheritance Tree

DMP— Deficiency Management Plan

DMZ— Demilitarized Zone

DOM— Document Object Model

DSDM— Dynamic Systems Development Method

DSI— Delivered Source Instruction

DSML— Domain-Specific Modeling Language

DTI— Department of Trade and Industry (UK)
E

EDEM— Expectation-Driven Event Monitoring

EJB— Enterprise Java Beans

ETA— Event Tree Analysis

ETSI— European Telecom Standards Institute
F

FMEA– Failure mode and effective analysis

FMECA— Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis

FSM— Finite State Machine

FSR— Financial Services Roundtable

FTA—  Fault Tree Analysis
G

GAISPC— Generally Accepted Information Security Principles Committee

GAPP— Generally Accepted Principles and Practices

GASSP— Generally Accepted System Security Principles

GIGO— Garbage In, Garbage Out
H

HIPAA— Health Information Portability and Accountability Act

HTML— Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP— Hypertext Transfer Protocol
I

IAIP— Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection (Directorate of the DHS)

ICAEW—Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

ICE—In-Circuit Emulator

IDEF—Military equivalent of SADT

IDL—Interface Description Language

IIA—The Institute of Internal Auditors

IIOP—Internet Inter ORB Protocol

IP—  Intellectual Property

ISACA— The Information Systems Audit and Control Association

ISAPI— Internet Server Application Programming Interface

ISF— Information Security Forum

ISG— Information Security Governance

ISSA—Information Systems Security Association

ITCG— Information Technology: Control Guidelines 1998

ITGIG— IT Governance Implementation Guide

ITT— Initial Training Time

ITT— Invitation To Tender
J

J2EE— Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
K

KDSI— 1000 DSIs

KPQM— Key Performance Quality Measure (aka BPM)
L

LCSAJ— Linear Code Sequence and Jump

LDRA— Liverpool Data Research Associates

LISI— Levels of Information Systems Interoperability
M

MDA— Model-Driven Architecture

MDD— Model-Driven Development

MOD- Ministry of Defense — (UK)

MOF-  Meta-Object Facility — (In UML )

MPI— Merchant server Plug-In
N

NCSS— Non-Commented Source Statements

NIST— National Institute for Standards and Technology

NOC— Number of Children

NSAPI— Netscape Server Application Programming Interface
O

OCT— Operationally Critical Threat

OMG— Object Management Group

OMT— Object Modeling Technique
P

PCA— Performance and Coverage Analyzer

PCAOB— Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

PCS— Partnering for Cyber Security

PIM— Platform-Independent Model

PIPEDA— Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

POF— Probability of Failure

PSI— Platform-Specific Implementation 
Q

QMS— Quality Management System

QoS— Quality of Service
R

RAD— Rapid Application Development

RFC— Request for Change

RFC— Response for a Class

RFP— Request for Proposal

RMI— Remote Method Invocation

ROI— Return on Investment

RSS— Rich Site Summary
S

SADT— Systems Analysis and Design Technique

SC— Security Checklist

SCA— Source Code Analyzer

SCR— Software Change Request

SDK— Software Development Kit

SEI—Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon University)

SME— Subject Matter Expert

SNAC— Systems and Network Attack Center

SOAP— Simple Object Access Protocol

SOX— Sarbanes–Oxley Act

SPEC— Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

STT— Subsequent Training Time
T

TCB— Trusted Computing Base

TOE— Target of Evaluation
U

UDDI— Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

UML— Universal Modeling Language

URI— Uniform Resource Identifier

URL— Uniform Resource Locator

UTC— Usability-Test Candidate

UTCS— UTC Score
V

VAF— Value Adjustment Factor

VEE— Virtual Execution Environment
W

WMC— Weighted Methods per Class

WSDL— Web Services Description Language
X

XMI— XML Metadata Interchange

XML— eXtensible Markup Language

XP— eXtreme Programming