IP Workshop - Acronyms List

ACATS: (FCC) Advisory Committee on Advanced TV Systems

ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union

ADAPSO: earlier name for Information Technology Association of America

ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

ASN: Abstract syntax notation

ATM: Asynchronous transfer mode

BDE: Base Development Environment (from Transarc Corp.)

BMI: Broadcast Music Inc.

CAD: Computer-aided design

CARL: Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

CASE: Computer-aided software engineering

CAUSE: member newsletter of the Assn. for Managing & Using Info. Tech. in Higher Educ.

cid: client unique identifier

CLP: Cell loss priority

CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

CNRI: Corporation for National Research Initiatives

CPJIN: CUPID printjob ID number

CPJON: CUPID printjob order number

CPU: Central processing unit

CUPID: Consortium for University Printing and Information Distribution

DART: Digital audio recording technology

DCE: Distributed computing environment

DES: Data encryption standard

DLS: Digital library system

DMA: Direct Marketing Association

DNS: Domain name system

DVI: Digital video interactive

EBR: Electronic bibliographic record

EDI: Electronic data interchange

EDUCOM: A non-profit consortium of higher-ed institutions which facilitates information research

EFT: Electronic funds transfer

FTP: File transfer protocol

GFC: Generic flow control

G4Fax: Group 4 facsimile

HEC: Header error control

HPC: Act High-Performance Computing Act

HPCC Act: High-Performance Computing and Communications Act

IBP: Internet billing protocol

IBS: Internet billing server

IC: Integrated circuit

IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force

INI: Information Networking Institute

IP: Intellectual property

I/O: Input/output

ISBN: International standard book number

ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO: Organization for International Standardization

LCS: Library collections services

LIDB: Line interface data base

LMT: Lossless multiresolution transform

MH: Modified Hoffman

MR: Modified read

MMR: Modified modified read

NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology

NREN: National Research and Education Network

NSA: National Security Agency

NSFnet: National Science Foundation Network

NVM: Non-volatile memory

OS: Operating system

PC: Personal computer

PEM: Privacy enhanced mail

PIN: Personal identification number

PSP: Professional scholarly publishing

PS/WP4 (FCC): Planning Subcommittee/Working Party 4

PT: Payload type

PTL: Prerequisite task list

RAM: Random-access memory

RFT: Request for technology

RIAA: Recording Industry Association of America

rid: resource identifier

RL: Run length(s)

RMS: Rights management system

ROM: Read-only memory

RPC: Remote procedure call

RRS: Registration and recording system

RSA: Rivest, Shamir & Adleman (developers of encryption standard)

SESAC: Society of European Stage Authors and Composers

SGML: Standard graphics markup language

SIDBA: Standard image database

SMPTE: Society of Motion Picture and TV Engineers

SMTP: Simple mail transfer protocol

SPA: Software Publishers Association

SS-VII: Signaling system VII

STM: Scientific, technical & medical

TCB: Trusted computing base

TCP: Transmission control protocol

TCP/IP: Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol

TP4: Transport class 4

TRC: Tone reproduction curve

UDP: User datagram protocol

VCI: Virtual channel identification

VLSI: Very large-scale integrated

VM: Virtual memory

VPI: Virtual path identifier

WAIS: Wide-area information service

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