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 organizations


Terms
1xRTT 2.5G CDMA data service up to 384 kbps
AMPS Advanced mobile phone service
AODV Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector
AVDL Application Vulnerability Description Language
BICES Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation
BPIF Business Process Infrastructure Framework
BRAN Broadband Radio Access Network
C3 Command, Control, and Communications
CAP Common Alerting Protocol
CDMA Code division multiple access
CIS Computer Information System
COI Community of Interest
COTS Commerical-of-the-Shelf
CPP Collaboration Protocol Profile
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DISA Defense Information Systems Agency [US]
DSR Dynamic Source Routing
EARS Effective Affordable Reusable Speech-to-text
EDGE Enhanced data for global evolution
EDXL DE Emergency Data Exchange Language, Distribution Element
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FDMA Frequency division multiple access
GPRS General packet radio system
GSI Grid Security Infrastructure
GSM Global system for mobile
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
IEG Information Exchange Gateway
IP Internet Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
MAC Media Access Control
MANET Mobile Ad-hoc Network
MBWA Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
NATO North Atlantic Treaty organisation
NC3TA NATO Command, Control, and Communications Technical Architecture
NCOE Net Centric Operational Environment
NCOW Net Centric Operations and Warfare
NGO Non-Government organisation
NMT Nordic mobile telephone
NNEC NATO Network Enabled Capability
NNEC-DS NNEC Data Strategy
NRF NATO Reaction Force
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OGSA Open Grid Services Architecture
OSGi Open Services Gateway Initiative
P2P Peer-to-Peer
PDC Personal digital cellular
PSTN Pubic switched telephone network
QoS Quality of Service
RHQ AFNORTH Regional Headquarters Allied Forces North Europe
SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SLA Service Level Agreements
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
SOA-RM SOA Reference Model
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
TACS Total access communications system
TDMA Time division multiple access
TFT Thin-Film Transistors
UDDI Universal Description and Discovery Interface
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WCDMA Wideband CDMA
XML Extensible Modelling Langauge

Table A.2. Terms