FOSS Open Standards/List of Acronyms

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 PDF 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