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Abbreviations and Letter Symbols


 * IETF — Internet Engineering Task Force
 * ILS — Integrated Library System
 * IP — internet protocol
 * IPR — internal progress review
 * IPSEC — internet protocol security
 * ISO — International Organization for Standardization
 * ISP — internet service provider
 * ISSN — International Standard Serial Number
 * IT — information technology
 * ITU — International Telecommunications Union
 * JDF — Job Definition Format
 * JPEG — Joint Photographic Experts Group
 * LAN — local area network
 * LDAP — lightweight directory access protocol
 * LPI — lines per inch
 * MAC — message authentication code
 * MARC— Machine Readable Cataloging
 * METS — Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
 * MHz — megahertz
 * MIME — multipurpose internet mail extensions
 * MIPS — millions of instructions per second
 * MMAR— Materials Management Procurement Regulation
 * MODS— Metadata Object Descriptive Schema
 * MPCF — marginally punched continuous forms
 * NAT — network address translation
 * NDIIPP— National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
 * NFC — National Finance Center
 * NIST— National Institute of Standards and Technology
 * NNTP — network news transfer protocol
 * OAI — Open Archives Initiative
 * OAI-PMH— Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
 * OAIS — Open Archival Information Systems
 * OCLC — Online Computer Library Center
 * OCR — optical character recognition
 * OLTP — online transaction processing
 * PRONOM— Practical Online Compendium of File Formats
 * PTR — program tracking report
 * PURL — persistent uniform resource locator
 * RAID — redundant array of inexpensive disks
 * RAM — random access memory
 * RFC — request for comments
 * RGB — red, green, blue
 * RI — representation information
 * RMA — reliability, maintainability, availability
 * RPC — remote procedure call
 * RSA — Rivest, Shamir, Adleman (public key decryption algorithm)
 * RTF — rich text format
 * RVTM — requirements verification traceability matrix
 * SAML — security assertion markup language
 * SDLC — software/system development life cycle
 * SDR — system design review
 * Section 508— Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
 * SGML — standard generalized markup language
 * SHA — secure hash algorithm