Appendix A: Acronyms

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ACI	access control instruction
ACL	access control list
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
ASCII	American standard code for information interchange
BER	basic encoding rules
BNF	Backus Naur form
CCITT	Consultative Committee in International Telephony and Telegraphy
DAP	Directory Access Protocol
DARPA	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DCA	Defense Communication Agency
DCE	distributed computing environment
DIT	directory information tree
DN	distinguished name
DSA	directory server agent
DSML	directory services markup language
DSE	DSA-specific entry
ERP	enterprise resource planning
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IANA	Internet-assigned number authority
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IP	Internet Protocol
ISO	International Standards Organization
JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interfaces
LBER	lightweight basic encoding rules
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDIF	LDAP data interchange format
MIB	management information base
OSF	open systems foundation
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
PDC	primary domain controller
PDU	protocol data unit
PHP	PHP hypertext processor
RDN	relative distinct name
RFC	request for comments
RPC	remote procedure call
SAPI	server application programming interface
SASL	simple authentication and security layer
SDK	software development kit
SLA	service level agreement
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP	Simple Network-Management Protocol
SSL	secure sockets layer
TLS	transport layer security
TCP	Transfer Control Protocol
TCP/IP	TCP + IP Protocol stack
UDP	User Defined Protocol
UTF-8	Unicode Transformation Format-8

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