glossary
- NVT - Network Virtual Terminal
Remote login in Internet: telnet.
See
RFC 854.
- ASCII - American Standard Code of Information Interchange
a 7 bit character encoding for the most common set of characters used
in english speaking countries.
See
RFC 1345.
- Unicode
Unicode or ISO-10646 is a 16 bit character set and acts as a superset
of all chracter sets being used in the Internet.
- Bitnet
- Because It`s Time Network
Decreasing worldwide research network using IBM RSCS technology.
A so called predecessor for the Internet.
- ftp - file transfer protocol/program
Standard file transfer protocol (synchronous).
See
RFC 959.
- IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
"administrative authority" for assigning numbers, ports and
addresses in the
Internet.
- MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Multimedia extensions for mail (and other Internet services).
See
RFC 1341.
- MTA - Mail Transport Agent
The e-mail server (e.g. for smtp).
See
RFC 2822.
- RFC
- Request for Comment
Internet Standards und Protocol Descriptions.
- PGP
- Pretty Good Privacy
Public key encryption software, a quasi-standard in the Internet.
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last updated: 2008-05-01