Acronyms and Abbreviations
ADSL Asymmetric digital subscriber line
APOP Authenticated Post Office Protocol (IETF)
ARP Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BGP Border Gateway Protocol (IETF)
BIOS Basic Input/Output Interface
BITNET Because It's Time Network
BSD Berkeley Software Development
CERT/CC CERT Coordination Center
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CSNET Computer Science Network
DES Data Encryption Standard
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (IETF)
DNS Domain Name System (IETF)
DoD U.S. Department of Defense
DOS Disk Operating System
DSA Digital Signature Algorithm (NIST)
DWDM Dense wave division multiplexing
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FTP File Transfer Protocol (IETF)
GUI Graphical user interface
HDLC High-level Data Link Control
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF)
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol (IETF)
IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm
IE Internet Explorer (MS)
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol (IETF)
IP Internet Protocol (IETF)
IPv4/v6 Internet Protocol version 4/version 6
ISDN Integrated services digital network
ISN Initial Sequence Number (TCP)
MD2/4/5 Message Digest 2, 4, & 5
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
NIC Network interface card
NNTP Network News Transport Protocol (IETF)