[ga] Acronyms, Guides & Directories

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Hi William & All

This might help a little.  There is also an "Acronym Finder".
Please could anyone advise any errors or omissions.
I have included some references to IPv4, IPv6 etc.

GUIDES AND DIRECTORIES

Acronym Finder        http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Useful look up database for acronyms & abbreviations

BetterWHOIS        http://www.betterwhois.com/
Domain name lookups across all registrars' data.

Dictionary            http://www.dictionary.com/
Questions about words, grammar & language; dictionary & thesaurus.

Ghostwheel            http://projects.ghostwheel.com/
A dictionary of the English language and a jargon reference.

Lexical Free Net      http://www.lexfn.com/
Powerful "connected" thesaurus links terms together.

Orchy Dictionary    http://www.orchy.com/dictionary/
Biggest vewable dictionary.  However links don't work.

Webopedia             http://www.webopedia.com/
The only online dictionary and search engine for Internet technology.

Whatis.com            http://whatis.techtarget.com/
Definitions for thousands of the most current IT-related words


CISCO SYSTEMS DOCUMENTATION

Configuring the DNS Service
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/cddm/cddm111/adguide/d
ns.htm

Internetworking Technology Overview
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/index.htm

Internetworking Terms and Acronyms from CISCO Systems
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ita/index.htm


ACRONYMS & OTHER DNS LINKS

ACIR    Advanced Computational Infrastructure and Research
Division of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (see CISE)
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/acir/
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf0065/cise/acir.htm

ACM    Association for Computing Machinery
http://www.acm.org/

ACPA    Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
http://209.41.60.248/law/ACPA.html
http://www.gcwf.com/articles/journal/jil_march00_1.html

ADNS    AGN Domain Name Service, Inc.
http://www.adns.net/

AfterNIC    Domain Name Auctions, Research and Management
http://www.afternic.com/

ALTNIC    AlterNIC -- The Network Information Centre
http://www.alternic.org/

ANIR    Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research
Division of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (see CISE)
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/anir/index.html
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf0065/cise/anir.htm

APNIC    Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
(Regional Registry)
http://www.apnic.net/

APTLD    Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Forum
http://www.apng.org/apcctld/

ARIN    American Registry for Internet Numbers
(Regional Registry)
http://www.arin.net/

ARPA    Advanced Research Project Agency
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa.html

ASO    The Address Supporting Organization
http://www.aso.icann.org/

ASP    Application Service Providers Industry Consortium
http://www.aspindustry.org/
http://www.allaboutasp.org/

Atlantic    The Atlantic Root Network, Inc.
http://www.biztld.net/

auDA    Australian Domain Administration
http://www.auda.org.au/

AUNIC    Australian Network Information Centre
http://www.aunic.net/

AURSC    Australian Root Server Confederation
http://www.irsc.ah.net/

BBN    BBN Planel (Now BBN Technologies)
http://www.bbn.com/
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/bbnt/aboutus.html

Berkman    Berkman Center for Internet & Society (of Harvard Law School)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

BIND    Berkeley Internet Name Domain (or Daemon)
http://www.nominum.com/    http://www.isc.org/

BIZ    dot BIZ  (see also Atlantic Root Network, Inc.)
http://www.biztld.net/

CCR    Computer-Communications Research
Division of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (see CISE)
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/ccr/index.html
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf0065/cise/ccr.htm

CDT    Centre for Democracy & Technology
http://www.cdt.org/

CERT    Carnegie Mellon - CERT Co-ordination Center
http://www.cert.org/

CIPO    Canadian Intellectual Property Office
http://cipo.gc.ca/

CIRA    Canadian Internet Registration Authority
http://www.cira.ca/

CISA    Commercial Internet Strategies Australia
http://www.cisa.net.au/index_altavista.htm

CISE    Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Directorate of the National Science Foundation (see NSF)
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/

CNRI    Corporation for National Research Initiatives
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/

CORENIC    CORE -- Internet Council of Registrars
http://corenic.org/

CPSR    Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
http://www.cpsr.org/

CSIF    Civil Society Internet Forum
http://www.civilsocietyinternetforum.org/

DARPA    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
http://www.arpa.mil/

DNH    The Domain Name Handbook
http://www.domainhandbook.com/

DNSO    Domain Name Supporting Organization
http://www.dnso.org/
http://www.dnso.icann.org/

DNSR    DNS Root
http://www.dns-root.org/

DNSRD    Domain Name System Resources Directory
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/

DOC    United States Department of Commerce
http://www.doc.gov/

EFF    Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/

EPIC    Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://epic.org/

FCC    United States Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/

GAO    United States General Accounting Office - ICANN Report
http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/summary.php?accno=163837&rptno=OGC-00-33R
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/og00033r.pdf  (PDF Format)

GAC    Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN
http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/international/DNS/gac/index.htm

GOD    dot GOD
http://www.dot-god.com/

gTLD-MoU    Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding
http://www.gtld-mou.org/

HIT    Hobbes' Internet Timeline
http://www.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html

IAB    Internet Architecture Board
http://www.iab.org/

IAHC    Internet International Ad Hoc Committee
http://www.iahc.org/index.html

IANA    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
http://www.iana.org/

ICANN    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org/

ICANN Blog          Web Log of ICANN related thoughts & events.
http://www.lextext.com/icann/index.html

ICANNWatch        ICANNWatch
http://www.icannwatch.org/

ICB    ICB Toll Free News
http://www.icbtollfreenews.com/

IDNO    The Individual Domain Name Owners Constituency
http://www.idno.org/

iDNS    Internationalized Domain Name System
http://www.i-dns.net/

IETF    The Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.ietf.org/

ILPF    Internet Law and Policy Forum
http://www.ilpf.org/

INTA    The International Trademark Association
http://www.inta.org/

InterNIC    Internet Network Information Center
http://www.internic.net/

INWW    Internet Names Wordwide (Division of Melbourne IT)
http://www.inww.com/

IOD    Image Online Design, Inc.
https://www.webtld.com/

IOPS    Internet Operators
http://www.iops.org/

IPC    The Intellectual Property Constituency
http://ipc.songbird.com/

IPI    Internet Policy Institute
http://www.internetpolicy.org/

IPv4       Internet Protocol Verion 4 (IPv4) Address Space
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

IPv6        The Next Generation Internet
http://www.ipv6.org/
http://www.ipv6forum.com/
http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no24/news/2764-1.html

IPv8        IPv8 (Galaxy/StarGate) Reference Guide
http://ipv8.vrx.net/

IPv16       IPv16 Explanation
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Pre_Oct_1998/msg02088.html

IRSC    International Root Server Confederation
http://www.irsc.ah.net/

IRTF    Internet Research Task Force
http://www.irtf.org/

ISC    Internet Software Consortium
http://www.isc.org/

ISI    USC Information Sciences Institute
http://www.isi.edu/

ISOC    Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org/
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html

ISOC-AU    Internet Society of Australia
http://www.isoc-au.org.au/

ISS    Internet Security Systems
http://www.iss.net/

ITAA    Information Technology Association of America
http://www.itaa.org/

ITU    International Telecommunications Union
http://www.itu.int/

LEXTEST    Bret Fausett's Internet Printing Press
http://www.lextext.com/index.html

MIT    Melbourne IT
http://www.melbourneit.com.au/

NANOG    North American Network Operators
http://www.ra.net/~nanog

NARSC    North American Root Server Confederation
http://narsc.lists.kz/

NCDHNC    Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency
http://www.ncdnhc.org/

NCSA    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

NICUS    Official United States Domain Registry
http://www.nic.us/

NOIE    Australian National Office for the Information Economy
http://www.noie.gov.au/

NS    Name Space
http://name-space.com/

NSF    National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/

NSI    Network Solutions
http://networksolutions.com/

NTIA    National Telecommunications and Information Administration
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/

OpenNIC    Open Network Information Centre
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/

ORSC    Open Root Server Confederation, Inc
http://www.open-rsc.org/

OpenSRS    Open Shared Registration Service
http://www.opensrs.com/

OpenXRS    Open Extensible Registry System
http://openxrs.tucows.com/

PACROOT    The Pacific Root
http://www.pacroot.com/

PCCF    Planet Communications & Computing Facility
http://www.pccf.net/
http://www.pccf.net/cgi-bin/root-servers/whereis-tld?+

PGP    PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") Security
http://www.pgp.com/

PSO    Protocol Supporting Organization
http://www.pso.icann.org/

RFC    Request for Comments
http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
http://www.rfc-editor.org/

RIPE    RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) Network Coordination Centre
(Regional Registry)
http://www.ripe.net/

SAIC    Science Applications International Corporation
http://www.saic.com/

SEI    Carnegie Mellon - Software Engineering Institute
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/

SEC    United States Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/

SRI    SRI International (was Stanford Research Institute)
http://www.csl.sri.com/
http://www.csl.sri.com/history/augment.shtml

SuperRoot    The SuperRoot Consortium
http://www.superroot.org/

TBTF    Tasty Bits from the Technology Front ("Roving Reporter")
http://www.tbtf.com/roving_reporter/

TINC    The Internet Namespace Cooperative
http://www.tinc-org.com/

TLD Finder    Top Level Domain Finder (see PCCF)
http://www.pccf.net/cgi-bin/root-servers/whereis-tld?+

UDRP    Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm

USPTO    United States Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/

VeriSign    VeriSign, Inc.
http://www.verisign.com/

WEB    dot WEB
https://www.webtld.com/

WIPO    World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.org/

W3C    World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/


Thank you.
Patrick Corliss



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