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Glossary
APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information
Interchange; seven-bit encoding of the Roman
alphabet
ccTLD
Country code top-level domain, such as .uk (United
Kingdom), .de (Germany) or .jp (Japan)
DNS
Domain name system: translates domain names
into IP addresses
GAC
Governmental Advisory Committee (to ICANN)
gTLD
Generic top-level domain, such as .com, .int, .net,
.org, .info
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers
ICT
Information and communication technology
ICT4D
Information and communication technology for
development
IDN
Internationalized domain names: web addresses
using a non-ASCII character set
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IGOs
Intergovernmental organizations
IP
Internet Protocol
IP Address
Internet Protocol address: a unique identifier
corresponding to each computer or device on an IP
network. Currently there are two types of IP
addresses in active use. IP version 4 (IPv4) and IP
version 6 (IPv6). IPv4 (which uses 32 bit numbers)
has been used since 1983 and is still the most
commonly used version. Deployment of the IPv6
protocol began in 1999. IPv6 addresses are 128-bit
numbers.
IPRs
Intellectual property rights
IPv4
Version 4 of the Internet Protocol
IPv6
Version 6 of the Internet Protocol
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
IXPs
Internet exchange points
MDGs
Millennium Development Goals
NAPs
network access points
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