# FOSS Open Standards/List of Acronyms

| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| ABI | Application Binary Interface |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Device |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| APDIP | Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASF | Advanced Systems Format |
| AVC | Advanced Video Coding |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleave |
| BIS | Bureau of Indian Standards |
| BSA | Business Software Alliance |
| BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
| BSI | British Standards Institute |
| ccTLD | Country Code Top-Level Domain |
| CD | Compact Disc |
| CDDL | Common Development and Distribution License |
| CE | Consumer Electronics |
| CII | Computer-Implemented Invention |
| COTS | Common Off The Shelf |
| DNS | Domain Name Service |
| DOC | Document |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DVD | Digital Video Disc |
| EC | European Commission |
| ECMA | European Computer Manufacturers Association |
| EEE | Embrace, Extend and Extinguish |
| e-GIF | e-Government Interoperability Framework |
| EICTA | European Information, Communications and Consumer Technology Industry Association |
| EIF | European Interoperability Framework |
| ELF | Executable and Linking Format |
| EPC | European Patent Convention |
| EPO | European Patent Office |
| ETRM | Enterprise Technology Reference Model |
| ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| EU | European Union |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FHS | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard |
| FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec |
| FOSS | Free/Open Source Software |
| FSF | Free Software Foundation |
| FSG | Free Standards Group |
| G2B | Government to Business |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| GL | Graphics Library |
| GNOME | GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| GNU | Gnu's Not Unix |
| GPL | General Public License (GNU) |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile Communications |
| GUI | Graphics User Interface |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPd | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon |
| I18N | Internationalization |
| IA | Internet Architecture |
| IAB | Internet Architecture Board |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| ICT | Information and Communications Technology |
| ICTU | Dutch Organization for Information and Communications Technology |
| IDABC | Interoperable Delivery of European e-Government Services to Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens |
| IEC | International Electro-Technical Commission |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IEEE-SA | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association |
| IESG | Internet Engineering Steering Group |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IJG | Independent JPEG Group |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IOSN | International Open Source Network |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPR | Intellectual Property Rights |
| IS | Information System |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISOC | Internet Society |
| ISV | Independent Software Vendor |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
| ITU-D | International Telecommunication Union - Development Sector |
| ITU-R | International Telecommunication Union - Radio Communication Sector |
| ITU-T | International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector |
| JFIF | Joint Photographic Experts Group File Interchange Format |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JTC | Joint Technical Committee |
| KDE | K Desktop Environment |
| L10N | Localization |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LCID | Locale Identifier |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LSB | Linux Standard Base |
| LZW | Lempel-Ziv-Welch |
| M17N-li | Multilingualization library |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MLP | Mozilla Localization Project |
| MNCC | Malaysian National Computer Confederation |
| MOV | Movie File Format |
| MP3 | Motion Pictures Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3 |
| MP4 | Motion Pictures Experts Group-4 Part 14 |
| MPEG | Motion Pictures Experts Group |
| MPL | Mozilla Public License |
| MS | Microsoft |
| MUI | Multilingual User Interface |
| MyGIF | Malaysian Government Interoperability Framework |
| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NFS | Network File System |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| ODP | OpenDocument Presentation |
| ODS | OpenDocument Spreadsheet |
| ODT | OpenDocument Text |
| OOo | OpenOffice.org |
| OpenI18N | Open Internationalization |
| ORG | Organization |
| OS | Operating System |
| OSDL | Open Source Development Labs |
| OSI | Open Source Initiative |
| OSOSS | Open Standards and Open Source Software |
| PAG | Patent Advisory Group |
| PAS | Publicly Available Specification |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PCL | Printer Control Language |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| PIKOM | Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX |
| PPC | Power Personal Computer |
| PPT | PowerPoint |
| RAND | Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory |
| RF | Royalty-Free |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| RIFF | Resource Interchange File Format |
| RPM | Red Hat Package Manager |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| SDO | Standard Development Organization |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SMPTE | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSO | Standard-Setting Organization |
| STD | Standard |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| SVID | System V Interface Definition |
| SXC | StarOffice Calc |
| SXI | StarOffice Impression |
| SXW | StarOffice Writer |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| TV | Television |
| UCS | Universal Character Set |
| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration |
| UFO | Uniform Fee Only |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNICODE | Unique, Universal and Uniform Character enCoding |
| USA | United States of America |
| UTF | Universal Character Set Transformation Format |
| VC | Video Codec |
| VCD | Video Compact Disc |
| VHS | Video Home System |
| VMS | Virtual Memory System |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAV | WAVE form Audio Format |
| Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity |
| WMA | Windows Media Audio |
| WMV | Windows Media Video |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| XLS | Excel |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XPath | Extensible Markup Language Path Language |
| XPM | XPixMap |
| XSL | Extensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSL-FO | Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects |
| XSLT | Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations |