Abbreviations

Abbreviation	Description
AAA	authentication, authorization, and accounting
AATV	authentication/authorization transfer vector
ACP	Admission Control Plug-In
ADSL	asymmetric digital subscriber line
API	application programming interface
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP	application service provider
ATM	Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BNF	Backus-Naur Format
B-RAS	Broadband Remote Access Server
CA	certificate authority
CHAP	Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CIM	Common Information Model
CLEC	competitive local exchange carrier
CLI	command line interface
COPS	Common Open Policy Service
CSR	certificate signing request
DA	destination address
CORBA	common object request broker architecture
DTD	document type definition
DES	directory eventing system
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DISP	Directory Information Shadowing Protocol
DIT	directory information tree
DMTF	Distributed Management Task Force
DN	distinguished name
DNS	Domain Name System
DSL	digital subscriber line
DSML	Directory Services Markup Language
DSP	Directory Service Protocol
EAR	enterprise archive (file format)
EASP	Enterprise Access Service Portal
EJB	Enterprise JavaBean
FSM	finite state machine
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
GAL	Gateway Application Logic
GIF	graphic interchange format
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time
GUI	graphical user interface
HTML	HyperText Markup Language
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
ID	identification (identifying; identifier)
IDE	integrated development environment
IDL	interface definition language
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IGMP	Internet Group Management Protocol
ILEC	incumbent local exchange carrier
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
IOR	interoperable object reference
IP	Internet Protocol
IPCP	Internet Protocol Control Protocol
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ISP	Internet service provider
IT	information technology
J2EE	Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
J2SE	Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
JAR	Java archive (file format)
JMS	Java Message Service
JMX	Java Management Extension
JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interface
JRE	Java Runtime Environment
JSP	JavaServer Pages
JVM	Java Virtual Machine
KB	kilobyte(s)
L2TP	Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
LAN	local area network
LAS	local authorization service
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDAPS	LDAP over SSL
LDIF	LDAP Data Interchange Format
LNS	L2TP network server
LSA	link-state advertisement
MAC	Media Access Control
Mb	megabit(s)
MB	megabyte(s)
MD5	Message Digest 5
MI	management information
MIB	Management Information Base
mutex	mutually exclusive
NAT	Network Access Translation
NBNS	NetBIOS Name Server
NIC	network information collector
OID	object identification
OS	operating system
OSM	object state manager
OSMW	object state manager for the Web
OSS	operations support system
PCIM	Policy Core Information Model
PDF	portable document file
PDP	policy decision point
PEP	policy enforcement point
POP	point of presence
PPP	Point-to-Point Protocol
PPPoE	Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PTA	PPP Terminated Aggregation
QoS	quality of service
QTP	QoS-tracking plug-in
RADIUS	Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
RAS	Remote Access Server
RDBMS	relational database management system
RDN	relative distinguished name
SA	source address
SAC	service activation context
SAE	service activation engine
SDK	Software Development Kit
SDX	Service Deployment System
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SPI	service provider interface
SSC	Service Selection Center - no longer used; now SDX
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer
SSM	service and subscriber management
SSP	Service Selection Portal
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TLS	Transport Layer Security
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UML	Unified Modeling Language
URI	Uniform Resource Indicator
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
UTF-8	Unicode Transformation Format-8
VLAN	virtual local area network
VPN	virtual private network
VoIP	voice over Internet Protocol
VR	virtual router
VSA	vendor-specific attribute (RADIUS)
VTA	volume-tracking application
WAR	Web archive (file format)
WDSL	Web Services Description Language
WINS	Windows Internet Name Service (Microsoft)
XML	Extensible Markup Language
XSLT	Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation