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| 3DES | Triple Data Encryption Standard |
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| ACID | Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases |
| AH | Authentication Header protocol |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| API | Application Processing Interface |
| APNIC | Asia Pacific Network Information Center |
| ARIN | American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASP | Active Server Pages |
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| B2B | Business to Business |
| B2C | Business to Consumer |
| BBS | Bulletin Board Systems |
| BIS | Business Integration Service |
| BLOBs | Binary Large Objects |
| BNF | Backus Naur Form |
| BPA | Business Process Automation |
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| CARD | Commerce Accelerated Relational Data |
| CDA | Content Delivery Agent |
| CDF | Channel Definition Framework |
| CDS | Content Delivery Service |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CIDR | Classless Internet Domain Routing |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System |
| CML | Chemical Markup Language |
| COC | Customer Oriented Change |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker |
| COTS | Commercially available Off The Shelf |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| CSV | Comma Separated Values |
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| DAM | Digital Asset Manager |
| DBMS | Database Management Systems |
| DCD | Document Content Description |
| DCOM | Distributed Component Object Module |
| DDOS | Distributed Denial Of Service |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML | Dynamic HTML |
| DMZ | Dimilitarized Zone |
| DOCTYPE | Document Type Declaration |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DOS | Denial Of Service |
| DSSL | Document Style Semantics and Specification Language |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DTP | DeskTop Publishing |
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| E-book | Electronic book |
| E-business | Electronic business |
| E-commerce | Electronic Commerce |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| EBNF | Extended Backus Naur Form |
| EDI | Electronic Data Integration (or Interchange) |
| EDIFACT | Electronic Data Interchange for Administration Commerce and Transport |
| EIP | Enterprise Information Portal |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ESP | Encapsulating Service Payload |
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| FAQ | Frequently Asked Question |
| FNOC | Franchised Network Operations Center |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
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| GI | Generic Identifier |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| GML | Generalized Markup Language |
| GPG | Gnu Privacy Guard |
| GSS | Gnome Service Scan |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
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| HCP | Hypertext Caching Protocol |
| HL7 | Health Level 7 |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | Secure HTTP |
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| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| IBM | International Business Machines |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers |
| ICE | Information and Content Exchange |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IDR | Proprietary Receiver |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System |
| IEC | Integrated E-commerce |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IKE | Internet Key Exchange |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPA | Internet Phonetic Alphabet |
| IPC | International Pressess Telecommunications Council |
| IPFA | IP Firewall Accounting |
| IPSEC | IP Security Architecture |
| IPX | Internet Packet Exchange |
| ISAKMP | Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol |
| ISN | Initial Sequence Number |
| ISO | Interanational Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
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| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
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| KDC | Key Distribution Center |
| KLIPS | Kernel IPSec |
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| L2F | Layer 2 Forwarding |
| L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
| LKM | Loadable Kernel Module |
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| MD5 | Message Digest 5 |
| MIS | Management Information Systems |
| MOM | Message Oriented Middleware |
| MPEG | Moving Pictures Experts Group |
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| NAA | Newspaper Association of America |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NITF | Neews Industry Text Format |
| NMS | Network Management Station |
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| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| ODBC | Open Database Connectivity |
| OFX | Open Financial Exchange |
| OOP | Object Oriented Programming |
| OSDL | Open Source Development Laboratory |
| OTP | One Time Passwords |
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| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PHP | PreHypertext Processor |
| PICS | Platform for Internet Content Selection |
| PIM | Personal Information Manager |
| PISA | Persistent Interchange Syntax for Asets |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNOC | Primary Network Operations Center |
| POP | Presentation Oriented Publishing |
| PPP | Point-to-point Protocol |
| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol |
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| QOS | Quality of Service |
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| RDF | Resource Description Format |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| ROI | Return On Investment |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RSS | RDF Site Specification |
| RSS | Really Simple Sydication |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
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| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SPX | Sequenced Packet Exchange |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| SSHD | Secure Shell daemon |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
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| TCP/IP | Transport ControlProtocol/Internet Protocol |
| TGT | Ticket Granting Ticket |
| TPAML | Trading Partnet Markup Language |
| ToS | Type of Service |
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| UCS-2, | UCS-4 Universal Character Sets |
| UI | User Interface |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| URN | Uniform Resource Name |
| UTF-8, | UTF-16 UCS Transformation Formats |
| UUID | Universal Unique Identifier |
| Unicode | Universal Code |
| Unix | a pun on MULTICS, 'Uniplexed' computer system |
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| VAN | Value Added Network |
| VBScript | Visual Basic Script |
| VPN | Virtual Privat Network |
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| W3C | WWW Consortium |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WBXML | WAP Binary XML |
| WML | Wireless Markup Language |
| WWW | Word Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| WebDAV | Web Based Distributed Authoring and Versioning |
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| XHTML | Extensible HTML |
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| Y2K | Year 2000 bug |