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Jan 2001 — Issue 222
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Internet Acronyms

The computer industry has spawned an alphabet soup of acronyms to describe all of the technology. I find it really irritating when someone uses an acronym without spelling out what it means at least once in the article. The overall acronym list is huge, so I will only submit small subsets for publication. This month, I have collected a list of acronyms that I have found in articles and Web pages that pertain to the Internet. I am sure the list is not complete as new acronyms are being added all of the time.

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API

Application Program Interface

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASP

Active Server Page

AUP

Acceptable Use Policy

B2B

Business to Business

B2C

Business to Consumer

B2E

Business to Employee

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

COPS

Common Open Policy Service Policy

CPA

Cost Per Action

CPC

Cost Per Click

CPM

Cost Per Thousand

CPTM

Cost Per Thousand Targeted

CSS

Cascading Style Sheet

CTR

Click-Through Rate

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DoS

Denial of Service

EGP

Exterior Gateway Protocol

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

FTP

Foil-screened Twisted Pair

gTLD

Generic Top-Level Domain Name

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPD

HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon

ICE

Information and Content Exchange

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IGP

Interior Gateway Protocol

IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol

IO

Insertion Order

IPP

Internet Presence Provider

IPv6

Internet Protocol Version 6

ISP

Internet Service Provider

JSP

Java Server Page

L2TP

Layer Two Tunneling Protocol

LAN

Local Area Network

LCP

Link Control Protocol

MAE

Metropolitan Area Exchange

MIME

Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions

NAS

Network Attached Storage

NDIS

Network Driver Interface Specification

NFS

Network File System

NIC

Network Interface Card

NNTP

Network News Transfer Protocol

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection

PDP

Policy Decision Point

PEP

Policy Enforcement Point

PING

Packet Internet (or Inter-Network) Groper

POP3

Post Office Protocol 3

PPP

Point to Point Protocol

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

QoS

Quality of Service

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RON

Run Of Network

ROS

Run Of Site

SAN

Storage Area Network

SAP

Systems, Application and Products in data processing

SGF

Structured Graph Format

SLD

Second Level Domain

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SSH

Secure Shell

SSI

Server-Side Include

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

TLD

Top Level Domain

UDDI

Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

URN

Uniform Resource Name

UTP

Unshielded Twisted Pair

UUCP

Unix to Unix Copy Protocol

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol

VPN

Virtual Private Network

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

WAE

Wireless Application Environment

WAIS

Wide Area Information Servers

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol

WINS

Windows Internet Naming Service

WSL

Wireless Session Layer

WTL

Wireless Transport Layer

WTLS

Wireless Transport Layer Security

XML

Extensible Markup Language

I hope you find this list useful. Let me know if you do and I will publish more lists. If there is a particular class of acronyms that you would like listed, please tell me, otherwise I will just pick one at random. If I get no responses, I will assume that no one wants to see this stuff and I will come up with other article topics.

Ken Hopkins has been involved with computers since the early seventies and has collected more computer information than he is willing to admit. The hardest part of writing an article can be coming up with a topic. Help by sending your topic ideas to hopkins@hopkinscomputing.com

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