FOSS Network Infrastructure and Security/List of Abbreviations

ACL Access Control List APDIP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Centre APRICOT Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies ARPANET Advanced Research Program Agency Network BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain BO Branch Office ccTLD Country Code Top Level Domain CEO Chief Executive Officer CIDR Classless Inter Domain Routing DNS Domain Name System DoS Denial of Service FOSS Free/Open Source Software BSD Berkeley Software Distribution GPL General Public License FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name FTP File Transfer Protocol gTLD Global Top Level Domain ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers IDS Intrusion Detection System IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IOSN International Open Source Network IP Internet Protocol ISP Internet Service Provider LAN Local Area Network LGPL Lesser General Public License MTA Mail Transfer Agent NAT Network Address Translation NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface NIC Network Interface Card NOS Network Operating System OS Operating System PCH Packet Clearing House POP Post Office Protocol RAM Random Access Memory RBL Real Time Block List RFC Request for Comments RIR Regional Internet Registry SANOG South Asian Network Operators Group SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SRI-NIC Stanford Research Institute-Network Information Center SSL Secure Sockets Layer TCP Transmission Control Protocol UCE Unsolicited Commercial E-mail UDP User Datagram Protocol UNDP United Nations Development Programme VLAN Virtual Local Area Network VPN Virtual Private Network WAN Wide Area Network Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity WLAN Wireless Local Area Network