AFA Association des Fournisseurs d'Accès à Internet

AFNIC Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération

AFNOG Africa Network Operators Group

AFRINIC Africa National Information Center (Internet addresses registry)

AFTLD African Top Level Domains Organization

APIPA Automatic Private IP Adressing

APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Centre

APRICOT Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies

APTLD Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association

apxs Apache Extensions (Apache server)

ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ASO Address Supporting Organization

ASP Active Server Page

AUI Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet

BEEP Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain

ccNSO Country Code Names Supporting Organisation

CENTR Country Code Top Level Domain Registries

CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CRISP Cross Registry Information Service Protocol (IETF)

CSLIP Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol

DNS Domain Name Server

DNS Domain Name Service

DNS Domain Name System

DNSIND DNS IXFR, Notification and Dynamic Update (IETF)

DNSO Domain Name Supporting Organization

DNSOP Domain Name Server Operations (IETF)

DNSSEC Domain Name System Security (IETF)

DSO Dynamic Share Object (Apache server)

EIF European Internet Foundation

EURID European Registry of European Domain Names

FAI Fournisseur d'Accès à Internet (-Idem ISP)

FAST Fournisseur d'Accès Sécurisé Transactionnel

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name

FRNOG French Network Operators Group

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GILS Government Information Locator Service (USA)

GIX Global Internet eXchange

HTML Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP Hyper Text Transmission Protocol / Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HTTP-NG Hyper Text Transmission Protocol - Next Generation

HTTPS Hyper Text Transmission Protocol Secure (HTTP over SSL)

IAB Internet Architecture Board

IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

IDS Intrusion Detection System

IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group (IETF)

IGF Internet Governance Forum

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol

IH Internet Hub

IIS Internet Information Server

IKE Internet Key Exchange

IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol

INTERNET International Network

Internet Archive Digital library of Internet sites.Universal access to human knowledge.

INTERNIC Internet Network Information Center

IP Internet Protocol

IPNG Internet Protocol Next Generation

IPSEC Internet Protocol Security

IPvx Internet Protocol version x

IRC Internet Relay Chat

IRIS Internet Registry Information Service

IRR Internet Routing Registry

IRRd Internet Routing Registry daemon

IRTF Internet Research Task Force

ISO 3166/MA ISO 3166 Maintenance agency, ISO's focal point for country codes.

ISOC Internet Society

ISP Internet Service Provider (same as FAI)

JANOG Japanese Network Operators Group

LACNIC Latin American and Caribbean Network Information Center (Internet addresses registry)

LACTLD Latin American & Carribean ccTLDs Organization / Organización de ccTLDs Latinoamericanos y del Caribe

LIRs Local Internet Registries

LISA Localization Industry Standards Organization

MAPI Mission interministérielle pour l'Accès Public à la micro-informatique, à l'Internet (fr, créée en dec. 2000)

MDA Mail Delivery Agent

MIME MultiPurpose (or multipart) Internet Mail Extensions

MTA Mail Transfer Agent

MUA Mail User Agent

NANOG North American Network Operators' Group

NICs National Information Centers

NIC Network Information Center

NRO Number Resource Organization

NX Domain Non Existent Domain

OTI Open Transit Internet

PARI Point d'Accès Régional à Internet

PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection

PING Packet Internet Grouper

POCs Points Of Contact

POP Post Office Protocol

PSO Protocol Standards Organization

RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RFCs Requests For Comments (a set of technical and organizational notes about the internet)

RIPE Réseaux IP Européens

RIPE NCC Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Center

RIR Regional Internet Registry

RPSL Routing Policy Specification Language

RWHOIS Referral WHOIS

SFINX Service for French INternet eXchange

SHTTP Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol

S/MIME Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

SO Supporting Organizations

SSL Secure Socket Layer

SWINOG Swiss Network Operators Group

SWIP Shared WHOIS Project

TCP-IP Transmission Control Protocol - Internet Protocol

TLD Top-Level Domain (com, net, org and aero, biz, coop, info, museum, name, pro)

UCE Unsolicited Commercial E-mail

UCS Universal Character Set

UNICODE A standards organization

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

URL Universal Resource Locator / Uniform Resource Locator

W3 World Wide Web

W3C World Wide Web Committee

WWW World Wide Web