ACL Access Control List

API Application Programming Interface

CDS Cell Directory Service

CMIP Common Managemnet Information Protocol

CORBA Common Object Request Broker

DCE Dictributed Computer Enviroment

DFS Distributed File System

DNS Domain Name Service

DTS Distributed Time Service

GDA Global Directory Agent

GDS Global Directory Service

IDL Interface Definition Language

IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

IP Internet Protocol

NTP Network Time Protocol

OMG Object Management Group

DCE Object Oriented Distributed Computer Enviroment

ORB Object Request Broker

OSF Open Software Foundation

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for Unix

RPC Remote Procedure Call

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

UDP/IP User Datagram Protocol / Internet Protocol

UTC Universal Time Coordinated

UUID Universal Unique Identifier