B.6 Conventions: Acronyms

AIX

Advanced Interactive Executive

API

Application Programming Interface

CC

Carbon Copy

DB

Data Base

DWORD

Double Word

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HTTP

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Security

ID

IDentifier

IP

Internet Protocol

IPF

Itanium(R) Processor Family

IT

Information Technology

NAT

Network Address Translation

OS

Operating System

PCRE

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

SAN

Storage Area Network

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UAC

User Account Control

udp

User Datagram Protocol

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

UTF

Unicode Transformation Format

WMI

Windows Management Instrumentation