| Term |
Meaning |
| ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| [AfriNIC] |
African Network Information Centre |
| APNIC |
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre |
| APRICOT |
Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operation Technologies |
| ARIN |
American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol |
| ARPANET |
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
| AS |
Autonomous System |
| ASN |
Autonomous System Number |
| ASO |
Address Supporting Organization |
| AW |
Assignment Window |
| BIND |
Berkley Internet Name Daemon |
| BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol |
| ccTLD |
Country Code Top Level Domain |
| CIDR |
Classless Inter Domain Routing |
| DNS |
Domain Name System |
| DNSO |
Domain Name Supporting Organization |
| EGP |
Exterior Gateway Protocol |
| EIGRP |
Extended Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
| ERX |
Early Registration Transfer |
| GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
| gTLD |
Generic Top Level Domain |
| IAB |
Internet Architecture Board |
| IANA |
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| IBGP |
Interior Border Gateway Protocol |
| ICANN |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers |
| ICMP |
Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IDN |
Internationalized Domain Name |
| IEPG |
International Engineering & Planning Group |
| IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IGP |
Interior Gateway Protocol |
| INET |
Internet Society annual conference |
| INTERNIC |
Internet Network Information Center |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPNG |
Internet Protocol Next Generation |
| IRR |
Internet Routing Registry |
| ISIS |
Intermediate System to Intermediate System |
| ISOC |
Internet Society |
| ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
| ITU-T |
International Telecommunications Union - Telecoms Working Group |
| JANOG |
Japan Network Operators Group |
| LACNIC |
Latin American & Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LIR |
Local Internet Registry |
| MTU |
Maximum Transmission Unit |
| NANOG |
North American Network Operators Group |
| NAT |
Network Address Translation |
| NIR |
National Internet Registry |
| NOC |
Network Operation Centre |
| NRO |
Number Resource Organization |
| NRO NC |
NRO Number Council |
| OSPF |
Open Shortest Path First |
| PACNOG |
Pacific Network Operators Group |
| PGP |
Pretty Good Privacy |
| POP |
Post Office Protocol Point Of Presence |
| PPP |
Point-to-Point Protocol |
| PSO |
Protocol Supporting Organization |
| RAS |
Remote Access Server |
| RFC |
Request For Comments |
| RIP |
Routing Information Protocol |
| RIPE |
Resaux IP Europeens |
| RIPE NCC |
RIPE Network Coordination Centre |
| RIR |
Regional Internet Registry |
| SANOG |
South Asia Network Operators Group |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| TLD |
Top Level Domain |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
| VLAN |
Virtual Local Area Network |
| VLSM |
Variable Length Subnet Mask |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| VSA |
Vendor Specific Attributes |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WGIG |
Working Group on Internet Governance |
| WSIS |
World Summit on the Information Society |
| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
