GENERAL TERMINOLOGY GLOSSARY

802.x - A set of IEEE standards for the definition of LAN protocols.

822 - The short form of RFC 822.  Refers to the format of Internet-style e-mail as defined

in RFC 822.

CNI - Communications Network Intelligence.  Ability of a network system to act appropriately in a changing environment.  CNI is the integration of knowledge and feedback into an input-and-output-based interactive, goal directed, network system that can plan and generate effective purposeful action directed toward achieving goals.

DEK - data encryption key.  Used for the encryption of message text and for the computation of message integrity checks (signatures).

Differentiated service - A paradigm for providing QoS on the Internet by employing a small, well-defined set of building blocks from which a variety of services can be built.

DWDM - dense wavelength division multiplexing.  Optical transmission of multiple signals over closely spaced wavelengths in the 1550 nm region.  (Wavelength spacings are usually 100 GHz or 200 GHz, which corresponds to 0.8 nm or 1.6 nm.)

EAP - Extensible Authentication Protocol.  Framework that supports multiple, optional

authentication mechanisms for PPP, including clear text passwords, challenge-response, and arbitrary dialog sequences.

PKCS - Public-Key Cryptography Standards.  Series of specifications published by RSA

Laboratories for data structures and algorithm usage for basic applications of asymmetric cryptography.

PKI - public-key infrastructure.  System of CAs (and, optionally, RAs and other supporting servers and agents) that perform some set of certificate management, archive Management, key management, and token management functions for a community of users in an application of asymmetric cryptography.

Standards Organizations - Following is a list of some of the official and defacto standards organizations that publish standards for Internet and WEB related activity.

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