Selected Acronyms

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Overview

ACLU	American Civil Liberties Union
ACPA	Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
ACM	Association for Computing Machinery
AIM	European Brands Association
AP-NIC	Asia-Pacific-Network Information Center
ARIN	American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARPA	Advanced Projects Research Administration (U.S. Defense Department)
ATIS	Association for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
BBN	Bolt, Beranek and Newman
BIND	Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BWG	Boston Working Group
ccTLD	country code top-level domain
CIDR	classless interdomain routing
CIX	Commercial Internet eXchange
CLNP	Connectionless Network Protocol
CNRI	Corporation for National Research Initiatives
CORE	Council of Registrars
CPSR	Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
DARPA	See ARPA
DDN	Defense Data Network
DDN-NIC	Defense Data Network-Network Information Center
DNRC	Domain Name Rights Coalition
DNS	domain name system
DNSO	Domain Name Supporting Organization
EC	European Commission
eDNS	Enhanced Domain Name Service
EFF	Electronic Frontier Foundation
ETSI	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FCC	Federal Communications Commission
FICPI	FÈdÈration Internationale des Conseils en PropriÈtÈ
FNC	Federal Networking Council
FRICC	Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee
ftp	file transfer protocol
GAC	Governmental Advisory Committee (ICANN)
GIP	Global Internet Project
gTLD	generic top-level domain
gTLD-MoU	Generic Top-Level Domain Memorandum of
http	hypertext transfer protocol
IAB	Internet Activities Board; Internet Architecture Board
IAHC	International Ad Hoc Committee
IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IESG	Internet Engineering Steering Group
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IFWP	International Forum on the White Paper
IGO	international intergovernmental organization
INN	International Nonproprietary Name
INTA	International Trademark Association
IP	Internet Protocol
IPng	Internet Protocol next generation
IPTO	Information Processing Techniques Office (ARPA)
IR	Internet address registry
IRTF	Internet Research Task Force
ISI	Information Sciences Institute (USC)
ISO	International Standardization Organization
ISOC	Internet Society
ISP	Internet service provider
ITAA	Information Technology Association of America
ITAG	IANA Transition Advisory Group
ITU	International Telecommunication Union
JDRP	Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (law firm)
LAN	local area network
LINX	London Internet Exchange
MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPAA	Motion Picture Association of America
NAP	network access point
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAT	network address translator
NIC	Network Information Center
NREN NIS	National Research and Education Network, Network Information Services
NSF	National Science Foundation
NSI	Network Solutions, Inc.
NTIA	National Telecommunications and Information Administration (U.S. Commerce Department)
OECD	Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
ORSC	Open Root Server Configuration
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
POC	Policy Oversight Committee (gTLD-MoU)
POISED	Process for Organization of Internet Standards working group
RFC	Request for Comments
RIPE	RÈseaux IP EuropÈens
RIPE-NCC	RÈseaux IP EuropÈens-Network Coordination Center
SAIC	Science Applications International Corporation
SITA	SociÈtÈ Internationale TÈlÈcommunications AÈronautiques
SLD	second-level domain
SO	Supporting Organization of ICANN
SRI	Stanford Research Institute
SRS	shared registration system
TCP	Transport Control Protocol
TLD	top-level domain
UCLA	University of California at Los Angeles
UDRP	Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
UNIX	a programming language
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
USC	University of Southern California
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WIPO	World Intellectual Property Organization
WITSA	World Information Technology and Services Alliance
WWW	World Wide Web

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