Abbreviations

 Abbreviation  Full Form
ABNF Augmented Backus-Naur Form
API Application Programming Interface
ASC American Standards Committee
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One
BER Basic Encoding Rules of ASN.1
BNF Backus-Naur Form
CCITT International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
CER Canonical Encoding Rules
CMS Cryptographic Message Syntax
CRAM Challenge/Response Authentication Mechanism
CSP Cryptographic Service Provider
DER Distinguished Encoding Rules
DES Data Encryption Standard
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FREDI Framework EDI
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GUID Globally Unique Identifier
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IIS Microsoft Internet Information Server
ISO International Standards Organization (or International Organization for Standardization)
ITA2 International Telegraph Alphabet 2
ITU International Telecommunication Union
MDN Message Disposition Notification
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
OID Object Identifier
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
RAM Random Access Memory
RFC Request For Comment
SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SEF Standard Exchange Format
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TTL Time-To-Live
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UN United Nations
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
XER XML Encoding Rules
XML Extensible Markup Language