Appendix B – List of Acronyms

 

 

3GL Third Generation Language

4GL Fourth Generation Language

AIFF Audio Interchange File Format

ALGOL Algorithmic Language

ANSI                                                                          American National Standard Institute

API                                                                                Application Programming Interface

ASCII                                              American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATM                                                                                      Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AVI                                             Audio Video Interleave

BASIC                                                 Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BD                               Business Driver

BGP Border Gateway Protocol

BIOS        Basic Input/Output System

BIR Business Information Requirement

BMP                      Bitmap

BRM                                                                                           Business Reference Model

BWAN                                                                                      Bureau Wide Area Network

C & S                          Calendaring and Scheduling

CAD Computer Aided Design

CASE                                                                      Computer-Aided Software Engineering

CCITT                                                                       Commite' Consultatif International de                                                                                           Telecommunications et Telegraphy

CCP                                                                                                       Client Contact Point

CD Collision Detection (Access Method)

CGI Common Gateway Interface

CIFS                                                                           Common Internet File System

CIO Chief Information Officer

CMM                                                                                          Capability Maturity Model

COBO Continuity of Business Operations

COBOL                                                                   Common Business Oriented Language

CODEC Compression/Decompression

COG           Continuity of Government

COOP Continuity of Operations Planning

COTS Commercial off-the-shelf

CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPE Customer Premise Equipment

CSIRC                                          Computer Security Incident Response Capability

CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access

CSU                                                        Channel Service Unit

DBA Database Administrator

DBMS                               Database Management Systems

DCE Desktop Common Environment

DCMI    Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

DEN Directory Enabled Network

DFS   Distributed File System

DHTML Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language

DIB Directory Information Base

DIF                                                                                    Directory Interoperability Forum

DMS Document Management System

DNS                                                                                                   Domain Name Service

DOD MIL STD Department of Defense Military Standard

DOI                                                    Department of Interior

DRM Data Reference Model

DS                                                       Decision Support

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSM                          Distributed Systems Management

DSS Decision Support System

DSU                               Digital Service Unit

DTD Document Type Definition

DTS                Distributed Time Service

DV Digital Video

E-FOIA Electronic Freedom of Information Act

EA Enterprise Architecture

EAP Enterprise Architecture Planning

EBA Enterprise Business Architecture

EBCDIC Extended Binary Code Decimal Interchange Code

EFT                                                                                   Electronic Funds Transfer

EIA Electronic Industries Association

EIGRP                                                          Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

EJB                                                                                                     Enterprise Java Beans

E-Mail                                                                                                           Electronic Mail

EMS Enterprise Management System

EPS                                            Encapsulated Postscript

ETL Extract, Transform, Load

FCAPS                                                                            Fault management, Configuration,

                                                                                 Accounting, Performance and Security

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FDDI                                                                                   Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FEA                                                                                      Federal Enterprise Architecture

FEDCIRC Federal Computer Incident Response Center

FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards

FOIA                                                                                       Freedom Of Information Act

FORTRAN Formula Translation

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GIF                                                                                    Graphics Interchange Format

GILS Government Information Locator Service

GIS                                                                                   Geographic Information Systems

GISRA Government Information Security Reform Act

GOTS                              Government off-the-shelf

GPEA Government Paperwork Elimination Act

GPRA Government Performance and Results Act

GPS Global Positioning System

GUI                                                                                                Graphical User Interface

HSRP Hot Standby Router Protocol

HTML                                                                                     Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP                                                                               Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I/O Input and Output

IAB                                                                                            Internet Architecture Board

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ID                                                                                                                      Identification

IDE Integrated Development Environment

IDEAS                                                  Interior Department Electronic Acquisition System

IDEF Integrated Definition

IDMS           Integrated Database Management System

IDS Intrusion Detection System

IEA                                                                                      Interior Enterprise Architecture

IEC                                                                  International Electro-technical Commission

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

IM                                                                      Instant Message or Instant Messaging

IMP Internet Mail Access Protocol

INCA                                                           Interior Network Communication Architecture

IPSEC IP Security Protocol

IPX                                                   Internet Packet Exchange

ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method

ISDN               Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO                                                               International Organization for Standardization

IT            Information Technology

ITMC Information Technology Management Council

ITMRA Information Technology Management Reform Act

ITSP                                                              Information Technology Security Plan

J2EE Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

JDBC                                                                                        Java Database Connectivity

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSP                                                      Java Server Pages

L2TP Layer Two Tunneling Protocol

LAN                                        Local Area Network

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LIPS Lightweight Internet Person Schema

LMR Land Mobile Radio

MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface

MARC Machine Readable Cataloging

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

MHS                                                                                          Message Handling Services

MIB Management Information Base

MIT                                                                                        Management Initiatives Team

MOM Message Oriented Middleware

MPLS                              Multi-protocol Label Switching

MRTG Multi Router Traffic Grapher

MTA                      Message Transfer Agent

MUA Mail User Agent

NACHA National Automated Clearinghouse Authorization

NARA National Archives and Records Administration

NASA SEWP                                              National Aeronautic and Space Administration

                                                                                Scientific and Engineering Workstation

NDS                                                                                               Novell Directory Service

NFS Network File System

NIST                                                          National Institute of Standards and Technology

NNTP Network News Transport Protocol

NOC                                                                                          Network Operations Center

NPR National Performance Review

NSDI                       National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NSM Network Systems Management

NSS                       Novel Storage Service

NTIA                                                                               National Telecommunications and

                                                                                                    Information Administration

OBDC                        Open Database Connectivity

OCIO Office of Chief Information Officer

OLAP        Online Analytical Process

OMB                                                                              Office of Management and Budget

OMG Object Management Group

ORB Object Request Broker

OS Operating System

OSI RM Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model

OSPF Open Shortest Path First Protocol

OTAP                                                                                         Over-the-Air Programming

OTAR Over-the-Air-Re-keying

OTP                                                                                      Online Transaction Processing

PC Personal Computer

PCI                              Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCM Pulse Code Modulation

PDA                             Personal Digital Assistant

PDD Presidential Decision Directive

PDF                 Portable Document Format

PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique

PH                   Phonebook

PIN Personal Identification Number

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PNG Portable Network Graphics

POP3 Post Office Protocol Version 3

POS Packet over SONET/SDH

PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PRA                                                                                              Paperwork Reduction Act

PRM                                                                                     Performance Reference Model

QOS            Quality of Service

RAD Rapid Application Development

RDBMS                                                              Relational Database Management System

RFC Request for Comments

RFP Request for Proposal

RIP                                                                                         Routing Information Protocol

RM Real Media

ROI                                                                                                     Return Of Investment

RPC Remote Procedure Call

RTA                                                           Requirement for Technical Architecture

RTP Real time Transport Protocol

RTSP                                                                                     Real Time Streaming Protocol

S/MIME Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

SAN                                                                                                    Storage Area Network

SCSI                                                                                Small Computer System Interface

SDE                    Spatial Database Engine

SDLC System Development Life Cycle

SIP  Session Initiation Protocol

SLA Service Level Agreement

SMS Short Messaging Service

SMTP                                                                                   Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNA Systems Network Architecture

SNMP                                                                     Simple Network Management Protocol

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol

SOW                                                                                                        Statement of Work

SQL                                                                                           Structured Query Language

SRM                                                                          Service Component Reference Model

SSL Secured Socket Layer

STP Shielded Twisted Pair

TCO                                                                                               Total Cost of Ownership

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TIA                                                                Telecommunications Industry Association

TIFF Tagged Image File Format

TRM                                                                                          Technical Reference Model

UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

UML                                  Unified Modeling Language

USB                                                                                                       Universal Serial Bus

UTP                                                                                                Unshielded Twisted Pair

VDC                                                                                                       Virtual Data Center

VIM                                                                                    Vendor Independent Messaging

VPN Virtual Private Network

VSAM Visual Storage Access Method

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WAN Wide Area Network

WAP                                                                                    Wireless Application Language

WMF Windows Metafile

WML Wireless Markup Language

WSDL Web Services Description Language

XHTML                                                                  Extended Hypertext Markup Language

XML Extensible Markup Language

XSM                              X/Open Systems Management

 

 


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