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This list controls the terms that are captured by the Lingo extension and rendered as pop-ups when any user hovers over each word.

The syntax used here can be found over at Meta:ICANNWiki Content Planning.

ICANN structure[edit | edit source]

ALAC: At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.
ASO: Address Supporting Organization. Advises the Board with respect to policy issues relating to the operation, assignment, and management of Internet addresses (ICANN Bylaws).
BC: Business Constituency
ccNSO: Country Code Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (ICANN Bylaws).
CPH: Contracted Parties House. Includes the Registries Stakeholder Group and the Registrars Stakeholder Group (ICANN Bylaws).
CSG: Commercial Stakeholder Group. Represents the full range of large and small commercial entities of the Internet, including the Business Constituency, Intellectual Property Constituency and the Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency (ICANN Bylaws).
DNSO: Deprecated. Domain Name Supporting Organization. Predecessor of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, which advised the Board with respect to policy issues relating to the Domain Name System (ICANN Bylaws).
GAC: Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).
GNSO: Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).
IPC: Intellectual Property Constituency
ISPCP: ISPs and Connectivity Providers Constituency
NCPH: Non-Contracted Parties House. Includes the Commercial Stakeholder Group and the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (ICANN Bylaws).
NCSG: Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group. Represents the full range of non-commercial entities of the Internet (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the At-Large Advisory Committee.
NCUC: Non-Commercial Users Constituency
NPOC: Not-for-Profit Organizations Constituency
NomCom: Nominating Committee
NRO: Number Resource Organization
PSO: Deprecated. Protocol Supporting Organization.
PTI: Public Technical Identifiers
RALO: Regional At-Large Organization
RSSAC: Root Server System Advisory Committee. Advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the Internet's Root Server System (ICANN Bylaws).
SSAC: Security and Stability Advisory Committee. Advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the security and integrity of the Internet's naming and address allocation systems (ICANN Bylaws).

Internet governance terms[edit | edit source]

ccTLD: Country code top-level domain
CSAM: Child Sexual Abuse Material
DAAR: Domain Abuse Activity Reporting
GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
IRP: Independent Review Process
PDP: Policy Development Process
PTT: Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Service
RFC: Request For Comments
SLD: Second Level Domain
TLD: Top-Level Domain
UDRP: Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

Internet Governance and adjacent bodies[edit | edit source]

DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
IAB: Internet Architecture Board
IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
IGF: Internet Governance Forum
INTA: International Trademark Association
ISO: International Standards Organization
ISOC: Internet Society
ISP: Internet Service Provider
ITU: International Telecommunication Union
M3AAWG: Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group
NSF: National Science Foundation
UASG: Universal Acceptance Steering Group
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization
WSIS: World Summit on the Information Society

Technologies[edit | edit source]

FTP: File Transfer Protocol
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IDN: Internationalized Domain Name
IXP: Internet Exchange Point

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-'''ICANN structure'''
+This list controls the terms that are captured by the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lingo Lingo] extension and rendered as pop-ups when any user hovers over each word.
-;CPH:[[Contracted Party House]]
+The syntax used here can be found over at [[Meta:ICANNWiki Content Planning]].
-;NCPH:[[Non-Contracted Party House]]
-;CSG:[[Commercial Stakeholder Group]]
-;NCSG:[[Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group]]
-'''ICANN technical'''
+== ICANN structure ==
+;ALAC:[[At-Large Advisory Committee]]. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (''ICANN Bylaws''). Not to be confused with the [[Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group]].
+;ASO:[[Address Supporting Organization]]. Advises the Board with respect to policy issues relating to the operation, assignment, and management of Internet addresses (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;BC:[[Business Constituency]]
+;ccNSO:[[Country Code Names Supporting Organization]]. Develops and recommends to the Board global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;CPH:[[Contracted Parties House]]. Includes the [[Registries Stakeholder Group]] and the [[Registrars Stakeholder Group]] (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;CSG:[[Commercial Stakeholder Group]]. Represents the full range of large and small commercial entities of the Internet, including the [[Business Constituency]], [[Intellectual Property Constituency]] and the [[Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency]] (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;DNSO:''Deprecated''. [[Domain Name Supporting Organization]]. Predecessor of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, which advised the Board with respect to policy issues relating to the Domain Name System (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;GAC:[[Governmental Advisory Committee]]. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;GNSO:[[Generic Names Supporting Organization]]. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;IPC:[[Intellectual Property Constituency]]
+;ISPCP:[[ISPs and Connectivity Providers Constituency]]
+;NCPH:[[Non-Contracted Parties House]]. Includes the [[Commercial Stakeholder Group]] and the [[Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group]] (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;NCSG:[[Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group]]. Represents the full range of non-commercial entities of the Internet (''ICANN Bylaws''). Not to be confused with the [[At-Large Advisory Committee]].
+;NCUC:[[Non-Commercial Users Constituency]]
+;NPOC:[[Not-for-Profit Organizations Constituency]]
+;NomCom: [[Nominating Committee]]
+;NRO:[[Number Resource Organization]]
+;PSO:''Deprecated''. [[Protocol Supporting Organization]].
+;PTI:[[Public Technical Identifiers]]
+;RALO:[[Regional At-Large Organization]]
+;RSSAC:[[Root Server System Advisory Committee]]. Advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the Internet's [[Root Server System]] (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+;SSAC:[[Security and Stability Advisory Committee]]. Advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the security and integrity of the Internet's naming and address allocation systems (''ICANN Bylaws'').
+== Internet governance terms ==
+;ccTLD:[[Country code top-level domain]]
+;CSAM:Child Sexual Abuse Material
 ;DAAR:[[Domain Abuse Activity Reporting]]
+;GDPR:[[General Data Protection Regulation]]
+;IRP:[[Independent Review Process]]
+;PDP:[[Policy Development Process]]
+;PTT:Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Service
+;RFC:[[Request For Comments]]
+;SLD:[[Second Level Domain]]
+;TLD:[[Top-Level Domain]]
+;UDRP:[[Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy]]
-'''Technologies'''
+== Internet Governance and adjacent bodies ==
+;DARPA:[[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]]
+;EFF:[[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]
+;IAB:[[Internet Architecture Board]]
+;IANA:[[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]]
+;IEEE:[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]]
+;IETF:[[Internet Engineering Task Force]]
+;IGF:[[Internet Governance Forum]]
+;INTA:[[International Trademark Association]]
+;ISO:[[International Standards Organization]]
+;ISOC:[[Internet Society]]
+;ISP:[[Internet Service Provider]]
+;ITU:[[International Telecommunication Union]]
+;M3AAWG:[[Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group]]
+;NSF:[[National Science Foundation]]
+;UASG:[[Universal Acceptance Steering Group]]
+;W3C:[[World Wide Web Consortium]]
+;WIPO:[[World Intellectual Property Organization]]
+;WSIS:[[World Summit on the Information Society]]
+== Technologies ==
 ;FTP:[[File Transfer Protocol]]
 ;HTTP:[[Hypertext Transfer Protocol]]
+;IDN:[[Internationalized Domain Name]]
+;IXP:[[Internet Exchange Point]]