Appendix A. Acronyms
| Standards organisations | |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IEEE | International Electronics and Electrical Engineering Society |
| INCITS | International Committee for Internet Technology Standards |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| ISO | International Standards organisation |
| ITU | International Telecomunications Union |
| OASIS | organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| TTA | |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WS-I | Web Services Interoperability Organisation |
Table A.1. Standards organisations
| Terms | |
| 1xRTT | 2.5G CDMA data service up to 384 kbps |
| AMPS | Advanced mobile phone service |
| CDMA | Code division multiple access |
| DISA | Defense Information Systems Agency [US] |
| ebXML | Electronic Bussiness Extensible Modelling Langauge |
| EDGE | Enhanced data for global evolution |
| FDMA | Frequency division multiple access |
| GPRS | General packet radio system |
| GSM | Global system for mobile |
| IEG | Information Exchange Gateway |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty organisation |
| NCOW | Net Centric Operations and Warfare |
| NGO | Non-Government organisation |
| NMT | Nordic mobile telephone |
| NNEC | NATO Network Enabled Capability |
| NRF | NATO Reaction Force |
| PDC | Personal digital cellular |
| PSTN | Pubic switched telephone network |
| RHQ AFNORTH | Regional Headquarters Allied Forces North Europe |
| SHAPE | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
| TACS | Total access communications system |
| TDMA | Time division multiple access |
| UDDI | Universal Description and Discovery Interface |
| WCDMA | Wideband CDMA |
| XML | Extensible Modelling Langauge |
Table A.2. Terms