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Acronym	Explanation	More Information
ACP	Administrative Challenge Panels	http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/tracps.htm http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/dispute.html
ADR	Alternative Dispute Resolution	http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/dispute.html
AFA	Association des Fournisseurs d'Acces à Internet (French Access Providers Association)	http://www.afa-france.com
AFNIC (NIC-France)	Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération	http://www.nic.fr
AfriNIC	African NIC	http://www.afrinic.org
AFTLD	African ccTLDs	http://www.wwtld.org/aftld.txt
AIRA	American Internet Registrants Association	http://www.aira.org
APRAM	Association des Practiciens en Droits des Marques et des Modèles	-
APTLD	Council of the Asia Pacific country code Top Level Domains	http://www.aptld.org
APNG	Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG)	http://www.apng.org
APNIC	Asia-Pacific Network Information Center	http://www.apnic.net
ARIN	American Registry for Internet Numbers.	http://www.arin.net
ARPA	Advanced Research Projects Agency (See also DARPA)	http://www.darpa.mil
BIND	Berkeley Internet Name Domain	http://www.isc.org/bind.html
CABASE	Camara Argentina de Internet, el Comercio Electrónico, los Contenidos y Servicios On Line	http://www.cabase.org.ar
CAIP	Canadian Association of Internet Providers	http://www.caip.ca
CDT	Center for Democracy and Technology	http://www.cdt.org
CENTR	Council of European National Top level domain Registries	http://www.centr.org
CIGREF	Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises	http://www.cigref.fr
CNRI	Corporation for National Research Initiatives	http://www.cnri.reston.va.us
CORE	Council of Registrars	http://www.corenic.org
CORE-MoU	Council of Registrars Memorandum of Understanding	http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/core-mou.htm
DARPA	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency	http://www.darpa.mil
DNS	Domain Name System	-
DOC	US Department of Commerce	http://www.doc.gov
EC	European Commission/European Community	http://europa.eu.int
ECTA	European Communities Trade Mark Association	http://www.ecta.org
eCOMLAC	Federacion Latinoamericana y del Caribe para Internet y el Comercio Electronico	http://www.ecom-lac.org
ENRED	Foro Latinoamericano de Redes	http://www.reuna.cl/vi-foro/
ETNO	European Public Telecommunications Network Operators Association	http://www.etno.be
ETSI	European Telecommunications Standards Institute	http://www.etsi.fr http://www.etsi.org
EuroInternet	European Internet Business Association	http://www.eurointernet.org
EuroISPA	European Internet Services Provider Associations	http://www.euroispa.org
FCC	US Federal Communications Commission	http://www.fcc.gov
gTLD	generic Top Level Domain (not associated with country code)	-
gTLD-MoU	Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding	http://www.gtld-mou.org
IAB	Internet Architecture Board	http://www.iab.org/iab
IAHC	International Ad Hoc Committee	http://www.iahc.org
IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority	http://www.iana.org
ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers	http://www.icann.org
ICC	International Chamber of Commerce	http://www.iccwbo.org
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force	http://www.ietf.org
IESG	Internet Engineering Steering Group	http://www.ietf.org/iesg.html
INTA	International Trademark Association	http://www.inta.org
IOPS.ORG	Group of commercial Internet Service Providers	http://www.iops.org
iPOC	gTLD-MoU Interim Policy Oversight Committee	http://www.gtld-mou.org
ISO	International Organization for Standardization	http://www.iso.ch
ISOC	Internet Society	http://www.isoc.org
ISP	Internet Service Provider	-
ISPA-uk	Internet Services Providers Association of the UK	http://www.ispa.org.uk/
ITAA	Information Technology Association of America	http://www.itaa.org
ITU	International Telecommunication Union	http://www.itu.int
LACTLD	Latin American and Caribbean ccTLDs	http://www.lactld.org
MARQUES	Association of European Brand Owners	http://www.martex.co.uk/marques/
MoU	Memorandum of Understanding	-
MPAA	Motion Picture Association of America	http://www.mpaa.org
NANC	North American Numbering Council	-
NANP	North American Numbering Plan	-
NIC	Network Information Center	-
NSF	US National Science Foundation	http://www.nsf.gov
NSI	Network Solutions, Inc.	http://www.netsol.com
NSI Registrar	The initial Registry-Registrars functions of the NSI has been splitted into two names: NSI Registry and NSI Registrar.	http://www.netsol.com
VeriSign Global Registry Services	Sep 2000: the name "NSI Registry" has been changed to "VeriSign Global Registry Services"	http://www.netsol.com
NTIA	US National Telecommunications and Information Agency	http://www.ntia.doc.gov
OECD	Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development	http://www.oecd.org
PAB	gTLD-MoU Policy Advisory Body	http://www.gtld-mou.org
POC	gTLD-MoU Policy Oversight Committee	http://www.gtld-mou.org
RFC	Request for Comments	-
RIPE	Réseaux IP Européens	http://www.ripe.net
SRS	Shared Registratry System	http://www.gtld-mou.org/press/core-1.htm
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol	-
TLD	Top Level Domain	-
URL	Uniform Resource Locator	-
USPTO	United States Patent and Trademark Office	http://www.uspto.gov
WIPO	World Intellectual Property Organization	http://www.wipo.int
WTO	World Trade Organization	http://www.wto.org
WWTLD	World-wide Alliance of Top Level Domains	http://www.wwtld.org

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