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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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