16. APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute
- ARPA
- (U.S.) Advanced Research Projects Agency
- AS
- Applicability Statement
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ITU-T
- Telecommunications Standardization sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN treaty organization; ITU-T was formerly called CCITT.
- IAB
- Internet Architecture Board
- IANA
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- ICMP
- Internet Control Message Protocol
- IESG
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- IETF
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- IP
- Internet Protocol
- IRSG
- Internet Research Steering Group
- IRTF
- Internet Research Task Force
- ISO
- International Organization for Standardization
- ISOC
- Internet Society
- MIB
- Management Information Base
- OSI
- Open Systems Interconnection
- RFC
- Request for Comments
- TCP
- Transmission Control Protocol
- TS
- Technical Specification
- WWW
- World Wide Web