# Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
Management

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# Appendix D
Acronyms

Table D-1 shows DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS acronyms and other acronyms related to TCP/IP networking.

Table D-1 Acronyms
Acronym | Meaning
--- | ---
ACK | acknowledgment
ACL | access control list
ACP | ancillary control process
ANSI | American National Standards Institute
API | application programming interface
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATM | asynchronous transfer mode
BBS | Bulletin Board System
BGP | Border Gateway Protocol
BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BOOTP | Bootstrap Protocol
bps | bits per second
BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution
CFS | container file system
CFSRTL | container file system run-time library
CSLIP | Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol
DCE | Distributed Computing Environment
DCL | Digital Command Language
DEK | data encryption key
DES | data encryption standard
DNS | Domain Name Service
eSNMP | extensible Simple Network Management Protocol
EGP | External Gateway Protocol
FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface
EOF | end of file
EOL | end of line
FQDN | fully qualified domain name
FTP | File Transfer Protocol
GID | group identification (UNIX)
IAB | Internet Architecture Board
ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol
IGP | Internal Gateway Protocol
InterNIC | Internet Network Information Center
IP | Internet Protocol
ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Networks
IVP | installation verification procedure
Kbps | kilobits per second
LAN | local area network
LPD | line printer daemon
LPR | remote line printing
MBUF | memory buffer
MFD | master file directory
MIB | Management Information Base
MIB II | Management Information Base II
MTU | maximum transmission unit
MX | mail exchange
NAK | negative acknowledgment
NFS | Network File System
NIS | Network Information Service
NMS | Network Management Station
NOC | Network Operations Center
NTP | Network Time Protocol
PDU | protocol data unit
PING | packet internet groper
POP | Post Office Protocol
PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol
PSDN | Packet Switching Data Network
PWIP | PATHWORKS Internet Protocol
RARP | Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RCP | remote copy
REXEC | remote execute
RFC | Request for Comments
RLOGIN | remote login
RIP | Routing Information Protocol
RMS | Record Management Services
RPC | remote procedure call
RSH | remote shell
RTL | run-time library
RTT | round-trip time
SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMI | structure of management information
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol
TAC | terminal access controller
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TFTP | Trivial File Transport Protocol
TP | Time Protocol
TTL | time to live
UAF | user authorization file
UCP | Management Control Program
UDP | User Datagram Protocol
UID | user identification (UNIX)
UTC | Universal Coordinated Time
WAN | wide area network
WKS | well known service
XDR | external data representation

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