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ANSI American National Standards Institute
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BSI British Standards
Institution
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COM Component Object Model
CORBA Common Object Request Broker
Architecture
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DCOM Distributed COM (Component Object Model)
DISC (not an acronym) DISC is the part of BSI --
British Standards Institution -- responsible for standardization in
Information and Communications Technologies - ICT
DMTF Desktop Management Task Force
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ECMA (not an acronym) ECMA is an international,
Europe-based industry association dedicated to the standardization
of information and commun ication systemsEIA Electronic Industries
Alliance ETSI The European Telecommunications
Standards Institute
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FIPS Federal Information Process Standards
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GIOP General InterORB Protocol (ORB = Object Request Broker)
GIS Geographic Information Systems
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HTTP Hypertext Transfer
Protocol HTTPS secure HTTP
IB Infiniband
IDE hardware disk interface standard
IEC International Electrotechnical
Commission IEEE Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers IETF Internet Engineering Task
Force (industry association)IIOP Internet InterORB Protocol (ORB = Object Request Broker)
IMAP internet mail access protocol - mailtool (mailbox access
protocol)
IP intellectual property or Internet protocol
IPR intellectual property rights or interim performance review (for
Sun staff) ISO - International Standardization Organization (also:
International Organization for Standardization), the name "ISO" is
the Greek word for "the same."
ITL Information Technology Laboratory (NIST)
ITU International Telecommunications
Union
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JEDEC (Joint Electron Device
Engineering Council ) is the semiconductor engineering
standardization body of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)
JISA Japan Information Service
Industry Associa tion JTC Joint Technical Committee
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Kerberos a network authentication protocol (The name Kerberos comes from
Greek mythology; it is the three-headed dog that guarded the
entrance to Hades. aka "Cerberus")
KMI Key Management Initiative - U.S. Government security export
requirements
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LDAP lightweight directory access protocol
l10n localization (l + 10 letters + n)
Linux Linux is a free Unix-type
operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the
assistance of developers around the world
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NCITS National Committee For
Information Technology Standards NIST U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards
and Technology
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OGC Open GIS Consortium
ORB Object Request Broker
OSF Oppose Sun Forever or Open Systems Foundation
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RSA security company's name (RSA
is named af ter the company founders' surnames' first letters;
Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman )
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SDO standards development organization
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language (international standard
for describing the structure and content of machine-readable
information)
SMEs small and medium enterprises (Europe)
SNIA Storage Network Industry Association
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SSL Secure Sockets Layer (indicates a level of security)
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TOG The Open Group - an IT
industry co nsortium for promoting open technologies
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W3C World Wide Web Consortium
(industry group )WAP Wireless Application Protocol
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XML eXtensible Markup Language
(a simple dialect of SGML-Standard Generalized Markup Language-
designed for use on the World Wide Web and in intranets)XPointer XML pointer language
XSL XML style sheet language
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