NGI Implementation Plan Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations

	A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
A	AADS Ameritech Advanced Data Services   AAI ACTS ATM Internetwork   ABR Available bit rate   ACTS Advanced Communications Technology Satellite   AHCPR Agency for Health Care Policy and Research   ANL Argonne National Laboratory   API Application Program Interface   ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B	BAA Broad Area Announcement   BGP Border Gateway Protocol   BIT Broadband Information Technology
C	CA*net Canada's Research and Engineering Network   CAN Cooperative Agreement Notice   CBQ Class Based Queuing   CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites   CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics   CIC Computing, Information, and Communications   CT Committee on Technology (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)
D	DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency   DFN Deutsche Forschungsnetz (German Research Network)   DISC DREN Intersite Service Contract   DoD Department of Defense   DoE Department of Energy   DoEd Department of Education   DoI Department of the Interior   DREN Defense Research and Engineering Network   DS3 Digital Signal 3 (44.7 Mbps)
E	EOS Earth Observing Satellite   EPA Environmental Protection Agency   EPSCoR Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research   ETHR Education, Training and Human Resources Working Group
F	FCC Federal Communications Commission   FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency   FY Fiscal Year
G	Gbps Gigabits per second (109)   GIBN Global Interoperability Broadband Network   GDIN Global Disaster Information Network   GigaPOP Gigabit Points of Presence
H	HDR High Data Rate   HFC Hybrid Fiber Coax   HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface   HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications   HPCMP High Performance Computing Modernization Program
I	IC&V Intelligent Collaboration and Visualization   IETF Internet Engineering Task Force   I-NNI Network to Network Interface   IP Internet Protocol   IPSec Internet Protocol (Secure)   IPv4/IPv6 Internet Protocol, versions 4 and 6   ISAKMP Internet Security Association Key Management Protocol   ISP Internet Service Provider   IT Information Technology
J	JET Joint Engineering Team   JLAB Jefferson Laboratory
K	kbps kilobits per second (103)
L	LAN local area network   LSN Large Scale Networking
M	Mbps Megabits per second (million)   MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging   msec millisecond   MTPE Mission to Planet Earth
N	NAP Network Access Point   NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration   NASPA NGI Application Support Plan and Agreement   NCRR National center for Research Resources   NCSA National center for Supercomputing Applications   NESDIS National center for Atmospheric Research.   NGI Next Generation Internet   NGI IT Next Generation Internet Implementation Team   NGIX NGI eXchange   NIH National Institute of Health   NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology   NLANR National Laboratory for Applied Network Research   NLM National Library of Medicine   NNI Network to Network Interface   NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration   NOC Network Operations center   NPD Network Probe Daemon   NREN NASA Research and Education Network   NSA National Security Agency   NSF National Science Foundation   NSTC National Science and Technology Council
O	OC-3 Optical Carrier-3 (155 megabits per second)   OC-12 Optical Carrier-12 (622 megabits per second)   OC-48 Optical Carrier-48 (2.5 gigabits per second)
P	PACI Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure.   PET Positron Emission Tomography   PET Programming Environment and Training   PKI Public Key Infrastructure   pNASPA preliminary NGI Application Support Plan and Agreement   P-NNI Peer Network to Network Interface   PoA Point of Attachment   POP Points of Presence   PPP Point to Point Protocol   PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
Q	QoS Quality of Service.
R	R&D Research and Development.   R&E Research and Engineering   RF Radio Frequency   RPC Remote Procedure Call   RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol   RTP Real Time Protocol
S	SBIR Small Business Innovative Research   SDSC San Diego Supercomputing center   SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork   ST Scheduled Transfer   STAR-TAP Science, Technology and Research Transit Access Point   STTR Small Business Technology Transfer   SuperNet Terabit Research Network (DARPA)
T	Tbps Terabits per second (1012)   TCP Transport Control Protocol
U	UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research   UNI User Network Interface   URL Uniform Resource Locator   USDA Department of Agriculture   USGS U.S. Geological Survey
U	VBN Very High Speed Backbone Network Service (NSF)
W	WAN Wide Area Network   WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing