Definitions

__ASCII__: American Standard Code for Information Interchange: (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers.

__IETF__: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet Standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet Protocol Suite.

__IESG__: The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is a body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Chair and Area Directors

__IAB__: Internet Architecture Board. The Internet Architecture Board is a technical advisory group of the Internet Society.

__IRTF__: Internet Research Task Force

__IEEE__: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read I-Triple-E) is an international non-profit, professional organisation for the advancement of technology related to electricity.

__ITU__: ITU is the global technical standard-setting body for telecommunication services.

__W3C__: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).

__HTTP__: hypertext transfer protocol: a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers

__TCP__: transmission control protocol: a protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another

__IP__: internet protocol. Often used to refer to a data network which uses IP, as in Voice over IP.

__FTP__: file transfer protocol: protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network

__DNS__: Domain Name System. This is a service that stores, translates, and retrieves the numerical address equivalents of familiar host names that you use everyday

__UDP__: An Internet protocol which transmits data packets without error checking.

__ATM__: Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a standardized digital data transmission technology.