Acronyms

This acronym list, or something similar, is found in every copy of the ICANNWiki Quick Guide.

Spanish translations provided courtesy of the South School on Internet Governance and Dominios Latinoamérica.

Acronym	Organization or Group	Spanish Translation
AC	Advisory Committee
AFRALO	African Regional At-Large Organization
AfriNIC	The African Network Information Center	Central Africano de Información de Redes
ALAC	At-Large Advisory Committee	Comité Asesor At-Large
ALS	At-Large Structure
APNIC	The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre	Centro de Información de Redes del Pacifico Asiático
APRALO	Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organization
ARIN	American Registry for Internet Numbers	Reg. Norteamericano de Números de Internet
AROS	Automated Registrar Onboarding System
ASO	Address Supporting Organization	Organización de Apoyo Para Direcciones
ASOAC	Address Supporting Organization Address Council
BAMC	Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee
BC	Business Constituency
BGC	Board Governance Committee
BTC	Board Technical Committee
CCAOI	Cyber Cafe Association Of India
CLDP	Commercial Law Development program
ccNSO	Country-Code Names Supporting Organization	Organización de Apoyo Nombres de Dominio con Código de País
ccTLD	Country-Code Top Level Domain	Dominio de Alto Nivel con Código de País
CCT	Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice
CCWG	Cross community working groups
CENTR	Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries	association of European Internet country code top-level domain registries
CRISP	Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal
CSG	Commercial Stakeholder Group
DMLA	Dominios Latinoamérica	Dominios Latinoamérica
DNS	Domain Name System	Sistema de Nombres de Dominio
DNSSEC	Domain Name System Security Extensions	Domain Name System extensions
EURALO	European Regional At-Large Organization
EPSRP	Extended Process Similarity Review Panel
EWG	Expert Working Group
GAC	Governmental Advisory Committee	Comité Asesor Gubernamental
GDPR	General Data Protection Regulation
GNSO	Generic Names Supporting Organization	Organización de Apoyo para Nombres Genéricos
gTLD	Generic Top-Level Domain	Dominio Genérico de Alto Nivel
GeoTLD	Geographic Top-Level Domain
IAB	Internet Architecture Board
IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority	Autoridad de Números Asignados en Internet
ICANN	Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers	Corporación para la Asignación de Nombres y Números en Internet
ICG	IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group
IDN	Internationalized Domain Name	Nombres de Dominio Internacionalizado
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force	Grupo de Trabajo en Ingeniería de Internet
IP	Internet Protocol	Protocolo de Internet
IPC	Intellectual Property Constituency
IPN	Interplanetary Internet	computer network in space, consisting of a set of network nodes that can communicate with each other
IPv4	Internet Protocol Version 4
IPv6	Internet Protocol Version 6
IRP	Independent Review Process
ISOC	The Internet Society	Sociedad de Internet
ISP	Internet Service Provider	Proveedor de Servicios de Internet
ISPCPP	Internet Service Provider And Connectivity Providers Constituency
JNC	Just Net Coalition	Coalición Just Net
LACNIC	Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry	Registro de Direcciones de Internet Latinoamericano y del Caribe
LACRALO	Latin American And Caribbean Islands Regional At-Large Organization
NARALO	North American Regional At-Large Organization
NCSG	Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group
NCUC	Non-Commercial Users Constituency
NIRA	Nigeria Internet Research Association
NOMCOM	Nomination Committee
NPOC	Not-For-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency
NRO	Number Resource Organization
NTIA	National Telecommunications and Information Administration
NIXI	National Internet Exchange Of India
OSC	Operations Steering Committee
PDP	Policy Development Process	Proceso de Desarrollo de PolIticas
PTI	Public Technical Identifiers
RAA	Registrar Accreditation Agreement
RALO	Regional At-Large Organisations
RDAP	Registry Data Access Protocol
RDS	Registration Data Services
RIPE NCC	Reseux IP Europeens	RIR de Europa y Medio Oriente
RIR	Regional Internet Registry	Registro Regional de Internet
RrSG	Registrar Stakeholder Group
RySG	Registry Stakeholder Group
RSSAC	Root Server System Advisory Committee
RSEP	Registry Services Evaluation Process
SO	Supporting Organization	Organizaciones de Apoyo
SSAC	Security, Stability, and Resiliency Advisory Committee	Comité Asesor de Seguridad y Estabilidad
SSIG	South School on Internet Governance	Escuela del Sur de Gobernanza de Internet
TCI	Technical Centre of Internet	Russian registries
TLD	Top Level Domain	Dominio de Alto Nivel
TLG	Technical Liaison Group
TTIGF	Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum
UDRP	Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy	Política Uniforme de Resolución de Disputas
URS	Uniform Rapid Suspension
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium	World Wide Web Consortium
WIPO	World Intellectual Property Organization	Organización Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual

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