FOSS Open Standards/List of Acronyms
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AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
ABI | Application Binary Interface |
AMD | Advanced Micro Device |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
APDIP | Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme |
API | Application Program Interface |
ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
ASF | Advanced Systems Format |
AVC | Advanced Video Coding |
AVI | Audio Video Interleave |
BIS | Bureau of Indian Standards |
BSA | Business Software Alliance |
BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
BSI | British Standards Institute |
ccTLD | Country Code Top-Level Domain |
CD | Compact Disc |
CDDL | Common Development and Distribution License |
CE | Consumer Electronics |
CII | Computer-Implemented Invention |
COTS | Common Off The Shelf |
DNS | Domain Name Service |
DOC | Document |
DOS | Disk Operating System |
DTD | Document Type Definition |
DVD | Digital Video Disc |
EC | European Commission |
ECMA | European Computer Manufacturers Association |
EEE | Embrace, Extend and Extinguish |
e-GIF | e-Government Interoperability Framework |
EICTA | European Information, Communications and Consumer Technology Industry Association |
EIF | European Interoperability Framework |
ELF | Executable and Linking Format |
EPC | European Patent Convention |
EPO | European Patent Office |
ETRM | Enterprise Technology Reference Model |
ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
EU | European Union |
FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
FAT | File Allocation Table |
FHS | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard |
FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec |
FOSS | Free/Open Source Software |
FSF | Free Software Foundation |
FSG | Free Standards Group |
G2B | Government to Business |
GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
GL | Graphics Library |
GNOME | GNU Network Object Model Environment |
GNU | Gnu's Not Unix |
GPL | General Public License (GNU) |
GSM | Global System for Mobile Communications |
GUI | Graphics User Interface |
HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
HTTPd | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon |
I18N | Internationalization |
IA | Internet Architecture |
IAB | Internet Architecture Board |
IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
ICT | Information and Communications Technology |
ICTU | Dutch Organization for Information and Communications Technology |
IDABC | Interoperable Delivery of European e-Government Services to Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens |
IEC | International Electro-Technical Commission |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IEEE-SA | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association |
IESG | Internet Engineering Steering Group |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
IJG | Independent JPEG Group |
IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
IOSN | International Open Source Network |
IP | Internet Protocol |
IPR | Intellectual Property Rights |
IS | Information System |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
ISOC | Internet Society |
ISV | Independent Software Vendor |
IT | Information Technology |
ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
ITU-D | International Telecommunication Union - Development Sector |
ITU-R | International Telecommunication Union - Radio Communication Sector |
ITU-T | International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector |
JFIF | Joint Photographic Experts Group File Interchange Format |
JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
JTC | Joint Technical Committee |
KDE | K Desktop Environment |
L10N | Localization |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LCID | Locale Identifier |
LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LSB | Linux Standard Base |
LZW | Lempel-Ziv-Welch |
M17N-li | Multilingualization library |
MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
MLP | Mozilla Localization Project |
MNCC | Malaysian National Computer Confederation |
MOV | Movie File Format |
MP3 | Motion Pictures Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3 |
MP4 | Motion Pictures Experts Group-4 Part 14 |
MPEG | Motion Pictures Experts Group |
MPL | Mozilla Public License |
MS | Microsoft |
MUI | Multilingual User Interface |
MyGIF | Malaysian Government Interoperability Framework |
NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
NFS | Network File System |
OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
ODP | OpenDocument Presentation |
ODS | OpenDocument Spreadsheet |
ODT | OpenDocument Text |
OOo | OpenOffice.org |
OpenI18N | Open Internationalization |
ORG | Organization |
OS | Operating System |
OSDL | Open Source Development Labs |
OSI | Open Source Initiative |
OSOSS | Open Standards and Open Source Software |
PAG | Patent Advisory Group |
PAS | Publicly Available Specification |
PC | Personal Computer |
PCL | Printer Control Language |
PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
Portable Document Format | |
PIKOM | Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia |
PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX |
PPC | Power Personal Computer |
PPT | PowerPoint |
RAND | Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory |
RF | Royalty-Free |
RFC | Request for Comments |
RIFF | Resource Interchange File Format |
RPM | Red Hat Package Manager |
RTF | Rich Text Format |
SDO | Standard Development Organization |
SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
SMPTE | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
SQL | Structured Query Language |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
SSO | Standard-Setting Organization |
STD | Standard |
SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
SVID | System V Interface Definition |
SXC | StarOffice Calc |
SXI | StarOffice Impression |
SXW | StarOffice Writer |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
TV | Television |
UCS | Universal Character Set |
UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration |
UFO | Uniform Fee Only |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
UNICODE | Unique, Universal and Uniform Character enCoding |
USA | United States of America |
UTF | Universal Character Set Transformation Format |
VC | Video Codec |
VCD | Video Compact Disc |
VHS | Video Home System |
VMS | Virtual Memory System |
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
WAV | WAVE form Audio Format |
Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity |
WMA | Windows Media Audio |
WMV | Windows Media Video |
WWW | World Wide Web |
XLS | Excel |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |
XPath | Extensible Markup Language Path Language |
XPM | XPixMap |
XSL | Extensible Stylesheet Language |
XSL-FO | Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects |
XSLT | Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations |