List of Abbreviations
ACSE
Association Control Service Element
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
AOM
Application (profile) OSI Management
API
Application Programming Interface
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency
AT&T
American Telephone and Telegraph
BT
British Telecommunications PLC
CAE
Common Applications Environment
CCITT
The International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
CLNS
Connectionless-mode Network Service
CMIP
Common Management Information Protocol
CMISE
Common Management Information Service Element
COBOL
Common Business Oriented Language
CODASYL
Conference on Data Systems Languages
CONS
Connection-mode Network Service
CPI-C
Common Programming Interface - Communications
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
DASD
Direct Access Storage Device
DBMS
Data Base Management System
DCE
Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DCE
Distributed Computing Environment
DIOCES
Distributed Interoperable and Operable Computing Environments and
Systems
DIS
Draft International Standard
DMI
Desktop Management Interface
DMTF
Desktop Management TaskForce
DNS
Domain Name Service
DSA
Directory System Agent
DTE
Data Terminating Equipment
DUA
Directory User Agent
EGP
Exterior Gateway Protocol
ETIS
European Telecommunications Informatics Services
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FR
Frame Relay
FTAM
File Transfer, Access and Management
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
GDMO
Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects
HUI
Human User Interface
I18N
Internationalisation
IBM
International Business Machines
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
INTAP
Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing
IP
Internet Protocol
IPCP
Internet Protocol Control Protocol
ISAM
Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ISP
International Standardized Profile
ISV
Independent Software Vendor
IT
Information Technology
ITU-T
International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications
Standardization Sector (formerly CCITT)
JIS
Japan Industrial Standards
JTC
Joint Technical Committee
LAN
Local Area Network
LAPB
Link Access Procedure Balanced
LAPD
Link Access Procedure on the D-channel
LAPF
Link Access Procedure to Frame mode bearer services
LU
Logical Unit
MAC
Message Authentication Codes
MDC
Modification Detection Codes
MIA
Multivendor Integration Architecture
MIB
Management Information Base (Interface)
MIF
Management Information File (DMTF)
NMF
Network Management Forum
NTP
Network Time Protocol
NTT
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
OAM&P
Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning
OMNIPoint
Open Management Interoperability Point
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
OSF
Open Software Foundation
OSF-DCE
Open Software Foundation-Distributed Computing Environment
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
PAD
Packet Assembly Disassembly
POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments
PPP
Point to Point Protocol
PSDN
Packet Switched Data Network
PU
Physical Unit
RARP
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RFC
Request For Comment
RIP
Routing Information Protocol
ROSE
Remote Operations Service Element
RPC
Remote Procedure Call
SII
System Integration Interface
SMF
System Management Functions
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA
Systems Network Architecture
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
SPIRIT
Service Providers' Integrated Requirements for Information Technology
SQL
Structured Query Language
STDL
Structured Transaction Definition Language
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TMN
Telecommunications Management Network
TP
Transaction Processing or
Transport Protocol
TTC
Telecommunications Technology Committee
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
UUCP
UNIX to UNIX Copy
XMP
X/Open Systems Management Management Protocols API
XMPP
X/Open Systems Management Protocol Profiles
XOM
X/Open OSI-Abstract-Data Manipulation
XPG
X/Open Portability Guide
XSM
X/Open Systems Management Reference Model
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