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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).
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