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[ga] Acronyms, Guides & Directories
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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