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13. REFERENCES

  1. REFERENCES

[1] Postel, J., "Internet Official Protocol Standards", STD 1, USC/Information Sciences Institute, March 1996.

[2] ANSI, Coded Character Set -- 7-Bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ANSI X3.4-1986.

[3] Reynolds, J., and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2, USC/Information Sciences Institute, October 1994.

[4] Postel, J., "Introduction to the STD Notes", RFC 1311, USC/Information Sciences Institute, March 1992.

[5] Postel, J., "Instructions to RFC Authors", RFC 1543, USC/Information Sciences Institute, October 1993.

[6] Huitema, C., J. Postel, and S. Crocker "Not All RFCs are Standards", RFC 1796, April 1995.

  1. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS

IETF Area - A management division within the IETF. An Area consists of Working Groups related to a general topic such as routing. An Area is managed by one or two Area Directors. Area Director - The manager of an IETF Area. The Area Directors along with the IETF Chair comprise the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). File Transfer Protocol (FTP) - An Internet application used to transfer files in a TCP/IP network. gopher - An Internet application used to interactively select and retrieve files in a TCP/IP network. Internet Architecture Board (IAB) - An appointed group that assists in the management of the IETF standards process. Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) - A group comprised of the IETF Area Directors and the IETF Chair. The IESG is responsible for the management, along with the IAB, of the IETF and is the standards approval board for the IETF. interoperable - For the purposes of this document, "interoperable" means to be able to interoperate over a data communications path. Last-Call - A public comment period used to gage the level of consensus about the reasonableness of a proposed standards action. (see section 6.1.2)

online - Relating to information made available over the Internet. When referenced in this document material is said to be online when it is retrievable without restriction or undue fee using standard Internet applications such as anonymous FTP, gopher or the WWW. Working Group - A group chartered by the IESG and IAB to work on a specific specification, set of specifications or topic.

  1. AUTHOR'S ADDRESS

Scott O. Bradner Harvard University Holyoke Center, Room 813 1350 Mass. Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Phone: +1 617 495 3864 EMail: [email protected]

APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS

ANSI: American National Standards Institute ARPA: (U.S.) Advanced Research Projects Agency AS: Applicability Statement FTP: File Transfer Protocol ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange ITU-T: Telecommunications Standardization sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN treaty organization; ITU-T was formerly called CCITT. IAB: Internet Architecture Board IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol IESG: Internet Engineering Steering Group IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force IP: Internet Protocol IRSG Internet Research Steering Group IRTF: Internet Research Task Force ISO: International Organization for Standardization ISOC: Internet Society MIB: Management Information Base OSI: Open Systems Interconnection RFC: Request for Comments TCP: Transmission Control Protocol TS: Technical Specification WWW: World Wide Web

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