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| Acronym | Explanation |
| ACB | Access Control Block |
| ACK | Acknowledgment |
| AF | Address Family |
| ANSI | American National Standard Institute |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| AS | Autonomous System |
| ASA | American Standards Association |
| ASCII | American National Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation One |
| BBN | Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Incorporated |
| BER | Basic Encoding Rules |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol |
| BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
| CMIP | Common Management Information Protocol |
| CMIS | Common Management Information Services |
| CMOT | Common Management Information Services and Protocol over TCP/IP |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DCA | Defense Communications Agency |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCE | Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (also called Data Communications Equipment) |
| DDN | Defense Data Network |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard |
| DFS | Distributed File Service |
| DISA | Defense Information Systems Agency |
| DIX | Digital, Intel, and Xerox Ethernet Protocol |
| DME | Distributed Management Environment |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DSA | Directory System Agent |
| DSAP | Destination Service Access Point |
| DTE | Data Terminal Equipment |
| DUA | Directory User Agent |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| EGP | Exterior Gateway Protocol |
| EOF | End of File |
| EOR | End of Record |
| FCS | Frame Check Sequence |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FIN | Final Segment |
| FTAM | File Transfer, Access, and Management |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GGP | Gateway to Gateway Protocol |
| GOSIP | Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile |
| GTF | Generalized Trace Facility |
| HDLC | High-Level Data Link Control Protocol |
| IAB | Internet Architecture Board |
| IAB | Internet Activities Board |
| IAC | Interpret as Command |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| ID | Identifier |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IEN | Internet Engineering Notes |
| IESG | Internet Engineering Steering Group |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
| IGP | Interior Gateway Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IRTF | Internet Research Task Force |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISN | Initial Sequence Number |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISODE | ISO Development Environment |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LAPB | Link Access Procedures Balanced |
| LAPD | Link Access Procedures on the D-Channel |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MIB | Management Information Base |
| MSS | Maximum Segment Size |
| MTA | Message Transfer Agent |
| MTU | Message Transfer Unit |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
| MX | Mail Exchanger |
| NETBIOS | Network Basic Input/Output System |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NIS | Network Information System |
| NREN | National Research and Education Network |
| NSAP | Network Service Access Point |
| NSFNET | National Science Foundation Network |
| NVT | Network Virtual Terminal |
| OSF | Open Software Foundation |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnect |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
| PAD | Packet Assembly/Disassembly |
| PDU | Protocol Data Unit |
| PI | Protocol Interpreter |
| PING | Packet Internet Groper |
| POP | Post Office Protocol |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
| RARP | Reverse Address Resolution Protocol |
| RFC | Request For Comment |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
| RMON | Remote Network Monitor |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RST | Reset |
| RTT | Round Trip Time |
| SDLC | Synchronous Data Link Communication |
| SLIP | Serial Line Interface Protocol |
| SMDS | Switched Multimegabit Data Service |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNA | Systems Network Architecture |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SONET | Synchronous Optical Network |
| SPF | Shortest Path First |
| SSAP | Source Service Access Point |
| SSCP | System Services Control Point |
| SYN | Synchronizing Segment |
| TCB | Transmission Control Block |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TCU | Trunk Coupling Unit |
| TELNET | Terminal Networking |
| TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
| TLI | Transport Layer Interface |
| TP4 | OSI Transport Class 4 |
| TSAP | Transport Service Access Point |
| TTL | Time-to-Live |
| UA | User Agent |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| ULP | Upper Layer Protocol |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| XDR | External Data Representation |
| XNS | Xerox Network Systems |
