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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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