Dictionary for Abbreviation:

WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee Akamai—Hawaiian for intelligent and clever and informally cool.

global internet content delivery (world-wide wait)

ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (Dnload 8Mb, Up800Kb)

AES Advanced Encryption Standard (Belgium, Rijndael encryption algorithm)

US Dept Commerce announced 10/2/2000.Will replace DES (data encryption standard. Rijndael was developed by Belgian cryptographers Joan Daemen of Proton World International and Vincent Rijmen of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Each candidate algorithm was required to support key sizes of 128, 192 and 256 bits. They were evaluated for the strength of their security as well as for their speed and versatility across a variety of computer platforms. According to NIST, Rijndael was selected because it had the best combination of security, performance, efficiency, implementability and flexibility. A technical analysis of the AES candidates is posted on NIST's Web site. http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/

Singh 12日將1萬英鎊(15,000美元)的獎金頒給由Fredrik Almgren為首的瑞典密碼破解小組時說:「這是歷來被破解的密碼中,難度最高的。」 Almgren從事網際網路安全工作,他與軟體開發人員Torbjorn Granlund,以及三位來自斯德哥爾摩皇家技術學院的電腦高手共同研究密碼破解之道。

AGCT Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine—four nucleotide bases

APIA Asia & Pacific Internet Association

APNG Asia Pacific Networking Group

APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Center

APTLD Asia Pacific Top Level Domain

ARP Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a protocol for mapping an Internet Protocol address (IP address) to a physical machine address that is recognized in the local network.

ARM

ASO Address Support Organization (See DNSO, PSO)

ASP Active Server Pages (Server side scripting environment)

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AWT Abstract Windows Toolkit

Beowulf a kind of high-performance massively parallel computer built

primarily out of commodity hardware components, running a free-software

operating system like Linux or FreeBSD, interconnected by a private

high-speed network. It consists of a cluster of PCs or workstations

dedicated to running high-performance computing tasks. The nodes in

the cluster don't sit on people's desks; they are dedicated to running

cluster jobs. It is usually connected to the outside world through

only a single node.

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain (is vulnerable in older versions)

BIND Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (blueprint WORLDWIDE, a non-profit organization by IBM and MDS proteomics, will maintain) New Company Founded by IBM and MDS Proteomics will Help Accelerate Drug Discovery with the World's Most Comprehensive Collection of Biomolecular Data

BLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

BGP Border Gateway Protocol

Bluetooth (Harald Bluetooth, King of Norway..) 2.45GHz, 10m-100m 1Mb/sec,

1998 Wireless IEEE802.11

C4ISR Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillence, Reconnaissance 指管通資情監偵

CBETA Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association

CCIRN Coordinating Committee for Inter-Continental Research Networking

CcTLD Country Code Top Level Domain

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access (See also TDMA)

CDE Cash, Distribution,Engineering

CDN Content Delivery Network

CDSP Content Delivery Service Provider (Akamai e.g.)

CDWA Categories for the Description of Works of Art

CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIMI Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information

CIX Commercial Internet Exchange

Cookie A cookie is a way for web sites to recognize whether or not you have

visited the site before. It is a piece of data given to a browser by a web server, so that the browser will hand it back to the server on subsequent visits. Bank One uses cookies in places where you need to register, such as Bank One OnLine Services, or where you are able to customize the information you see. Recording a cookie at such points makes your online experience easier and more personalized.

CNRI Corporation for National Research Initiatives GHR Global Handle

Registry

CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COTS Commodity off the shelf

CRM Customer Relationship Management

CSCW Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

CSDGM Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

CSS Cascading Style Sheets (adding style to web document) W3C.org

See XSL

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DDOS Distributed Denial-of-Service attack

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DICOM Digital Imaging and COmmunication in Medicine

DES Data Encryption Standard ( Kerberos MIT)

DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bars companies from

distributing technology that can bypass copyright protection

measures.

DMZ DeMilitarized Zone

DNSO Domain Name Support Organization (See ASO, PSO)

DTD Document Type Description (CommerceNet Co.)

DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing

EAD Encoded Archival Description

EBTI Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative

ECAI Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

EIP Enterprise Information Portal

ENUM tElephone Number Mapping services (resolution) mapping to DNS

address

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

ESP Encapsulating Security Payload

(3 main components of IPSec: Key Management-security

association, Authentication Header, and ESP)

EST Expressed Sequence Tags single pass cDNA sequences

ETSI European Telecommunication Standard Institute

EXIF Exchangeable Image File Format

FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee

FMC Fixed-Mobile Convergence

GILS Government Information Locator Service

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation (one of main tunneling protocols:

IPsec, PPTP, L2TP and GRE)

GSM Global System for Mobile Communication

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HUGO Human Genome Organization

HGNC HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/

ICANN International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ICR Intelligent Character Recognition

IDE Integrated Development Environment

IDNS Internationalized Domain Name System

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force--a volunteer organization which defines

protocols for use on the Internet

IETM Interactive Electronic Technical Manual

IMLS Institute of Museum and Library Services

IP-RAN IP based Radio Access Network

IPSEC IP security Protocol

ISOC Internet Society

ISUP Signaling system 7 ISDN User Part

ITSEC Information Tech. Security Evaluation and Certification Scheme

ITU International Telecommunication Union

JDK Java Development Kit

JFC/Swing Java Foundation Classes

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSDT Java Shared Data Toolkit

J2ME platform JavaTM 2 Platform, Micro Edition http://java.sun.com/j2me/

J2SE (standard edition) J2EE (enterprise edition)

LAPDm Link Access Protocol for Dm channel

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (both control/data packet thru UDP)

cf. PPTP control packet via TCP, data packet uses GRE via IP

LOM Learning Object Metadata

http://ltsc.ieee.org/doc/wg12/LOM-WD3.htm

MAC Media Access Control address

MARC MAchine Readable Cataloging

MCU Multipoint Conferencing Unit

Megaco Media Gateway control

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface, a music industry standard communications

protocol that lets MIDI instruments and sequencers (or computers running

sequencer software) talk to each other to play and record music.

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions: S/MIME(Secure)

MIME extends the format of Internet mail to allow non-US-ASCII

textual messages, non-textual messages, multipart message bodies,

and non-US-ASCII information in message

http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/MIME.html

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service (Nokia)

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

MINC Multilingual Internet Names Consortium

MTBF Mean Time Between Failures

MRP Material Requirement Planning

NAP Network Access Point

NARA National Archives and Records Administration

NCSA National Computational Science Alliance (formerly National Center

for Supercomputing Applications) one of the two knowledge

centers under the new PACI program (to build a national

technology grid, integrating instruments, computers,

communications and databases via Internet (&NGI) to form a

powerful PSE and collaborative scientific experiments.)

NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NPACI New Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, UCSD

Another PACI program center, develops a knowledge-based Info.

Infrastructure to link HPComputers, data servers and archival

storage systems, providing access to distributed computing power

and info. resources.

NIC Network Information Center

NPIC National Infrastructure Protection Center

OC3 155M OC12 622M OC48 2.4G OC192 9.6G OC768 40G

OCR Optical Character Recognition

OECD Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development

OIL Ontology Inference Layer is obviously a semantic web technology, and

according to the OIL FAQ OIL is intended to solve the findability problem, support e-commerce, and enable knowledge management http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tmrdfoildaml.html

OLE Object Link and Embedding: OLE Automation allows applications to communicate, exchange data, and control one another. It allows a client application to create and control an object, using the exposed object's interface. An Automation object is an object that is exposed to other applications or programming tools through Automation interfaces.

PACI Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure NSF 1997

PACS Picture Archiving Communication System

PAP Password Authentication Protocol

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCS Personal Communication System

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDF Portable Document Format

PDM Product Data Management

PDU Protocol Data Unit

PGP Pretty Good Privacy (secure and signed E-mail transmission) Philip Zimmermann, the inventor of the encryption protocol, left Network Associates and joins Hush Communication, Dublin-Ireland based.

PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor - free server-side HTML embedded scripting

language.

PLMN Public Land for Mobile Networks

PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PLM Product Lifecycle Management

POP Point of Presence

POS Packet over SONET

PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PSO Protocol Support Organization (See ASO, DNSO)

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PTO Public Telecommunications Operator

PWM Pulse Width Modulation www.instantweb.com/o/oddparts/acsi/defines/pwm.htm

P3P Platform for Privacy Preferences Project

RDF Resource Description Framework

An infrastructure that enables the encoding, exchange and reuse of structured metadata (D-Lib magazine, May 1998, www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/miller/05miller.html

An application of XML that imposes structural constraints to provide unambiguous methods of expressing semantics. (Defines a resource as any object uniquely identifiable by a URI-uniform resource identifier)

RPM Regenerative Power & Motion

(http://home.earthlink.net/~fradella/homepage.htm)

RTR Response Time Reporter (Cisco’s tool incorporated in hardware OS)

RTR has a number of capabilities, but in essence what it does is send out network echo response packets, gathers the response information and then provides a basic report. It's also possible to measure jitter (variations in the timing between electronic pulses that can introduce errors), variation in delay and packet loss across the network, as well as create custom packets that mimic the behaviour of traffic generated by specific applications.

RSI Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)。中文釋為重複施緊傷害。

RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol

SAP Service Access Points

SAP Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing.

SAS Subscribers’ Auditing System

SCM Supply Chain Management

SCORM Shareable Content Object Reference Model Initiative http://xml.coverpages.org/scorm.html

SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SEER Scholars Engaged in Electronic Resources

SET Secure Electronic Transaction

SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language

SIP Session Initiation Protocol ENUM

SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (W3C) 1.0

SNP Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (for use in Mapping genetic distinctions)

SNP Security Network Protocols developed by Chiao Tung Univ.

SOHO Small Office Home Office

SOP Standards of Procedure

SS7 common channel signaling system #7 (or C7)

SSO Single Sign On

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

STARTAP Science, Technology and Research Transit Access Point

STS Sequence of Tagged Sites (STS content mapping) http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/94SANTA/informatics/alizadeh.html

STM Synchronous Transfer Mode

SVG scalable vector graphics http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/ (Available as: PDF, zip archive of HTML)

SyncML SyncML is intended as a common language which enables the smooth and efficient synchronization of personal and business information over fixed or mobile networks. Its aim is to facilitate the synchronization of networked information with various devices running SyncML compatible applications. (NoKia)

UMLS Unified Medicine Language System (National Library of Medicine)

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access (See also CDMA)

TEI Text Encoding Initiative

UCAID University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development

(Internet 2) complements NGI

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supplies

VBNS very high speed Backbone Network Service

VAI VBNS Approved Institution

VPI VBNS Partner Institution

VRML Virtual Reality Markup (Modeling) Language

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WAP Wireless Application Protocol

WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing

WfMC Workflow Management Coalition http://www.wfmc.org/

WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization

WML Wireless Markup Language (a compressed XML)

WSP Wireless Service Provider

XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

XML Extensible Markup Language

XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language (W3C)

An XSL sheet and automatically generate a table of contents by

Extracting all chapter titles from a document. (transform document

Structure) see CSS

XSLT XSL Transformation

Anyone using XML can now take advantage of XSLT, a powerful new tool for manipulating, converting or styling documents, XPath adds a simple way of referring to parts of an XML document. Together, they strike a fine balance between simplicity of use and underlying power."

YAC Yeast Artificial Chromosome library http://www.cephb.fr/ceph_yac.html