Terminology
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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