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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).
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).
DNSO: 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).
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
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).

ICANN technical[edit | edit source]

ccTLD: Country code top-level domain
DAAR: Domain Abuse Activity Reporting
UDRP: Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
SLD: Second Level Domain
TLD: Top-Level Domain
PDP: Policy Development Process
IRP: Independent Review Process
UDRP: Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

Internet technical[edit | edit source]

CSAM: Child Sexual Abuse Material
IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ISP: Internet Service Provider
ITU: International Telecommunication Union
PTT: Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Service
RFC: Request For Comments

Technologies[edit | edit source]

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

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 ;NCUC:[[Non-Commercial Users Constituency]]
 ;NPOC:[[Not-for-Profit Organizations Constituency]]
+;NomCom: [[Nominating Committee]]
 ;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'').