Terminology

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ICANN structure

ALAC
At-Large Advisory Committee. Consider and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws).
ASO
ASO.
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. Consider 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
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

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

IG technical

RFC
Request For Comments

Technologies

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