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Brush up on the acronyms — from ASN to XML — most commonly used by the network engineers and internet technologists in our community.
Internet Community Organization Names
Abbr | Meaning |
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AFRINIC | African Network Information Centre |
AGWG | ARIN Government Working Group |
APNIC | Asia Pacific Network Information Centre |
ARIN | American Registry for Internet Numbers |
ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency |
ASO | Address Supporting Organization |
ASO AC | ASO Address Council |
CANTO | Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organizations |
CITEL | Inter-American Telecommunication Commission |
CTU | Caribbean Telecommunications Union |
IAB | Internet Architecture Board |
IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
ICANN GAC | ICANN Government Advisory Committee |
IEPG | Internet Engineering and Planning Group |
IESG | Internet Engineering Steering Group |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
IGF | Internet Governance Forum |
ISOC | Internet Society |
ITAC | Internet Technical Advisory Committee |
ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
ITU-T | ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector |
LACNIC | Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry |
NANOG | North American Network Operators’ Group |
NAv6TF | North American IPv6 Task Force |
NRO | Number Resource Organization |
NRO EC | NRO Executive Council |
NRO NC | NRO Number Council |
OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
RIPE | Réseaux IP Européens |
RIPE NCC | RIPE Network Coordination Centre |
WCIT | World Conference on International Telecommunications |
WGIG | Working Group on Internet Governance |
WSIS | World Summit on the Information Society |
WTSA | World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly |
WTFP | World Telecommunications Policy Forum |
Technical Terms
Abbr | Meaning |
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AS | Autonomous System |
ASN | Autonomous System Number |
BGP | Border Gateway Protocol |
CA | Cryptographic Authentication |
CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
CPS | Certification Practices Statement |
CRISP | Cross Registry Information Service Protocol |
DNS | Domain Name System |
DNSSEC | Domain Name System Security |
ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
IN-ADDR | Inverse Addressing |
IP | Internet Protocol |
IPv4 | Internet Protocol version 4 |
IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 |
IRIS | Internet Registry Information Services |
IRR | Internet Routing Registry |
IXP | Internet Exchange Point |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LSN | Large-Scale NAT |
NAT-PT | Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation |
NIC | Network Information Center |
NOC | Network Operations Center |
PA | Provider Aggregatable |
PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
PI | Provider Independent |
ROA | Route Origin Authorization |
Reg-RWS | Registration RESTful Web Service |
REST | Representational State Transfer |
RPKI | Resource Public Key Infrastructure |
RPSL | Routing Policy Specification Language |
RWhois | Referral WHOIS |
SSL | Secure Socket Layer |
SWIP | Shared WHOIS Project |
TCP | Transport Control Protocol |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
ULA | Unique Local Address |
VLSM | Variable Length Subnet Mask |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
Whois-RWS | Whois RESTful Web Service |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |
6 to 4 | IPv4 Tunnel for IPv6 Traffic |