Terminology
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ICANN structure edit
- ALAC
- At-Large Advisory Committee. Consider and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws).
- ccNSO
- Country Code Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the ICANN 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
- GNSO
- Generic Names Supporting Organization
- 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.
- 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
- 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