Glossary of the course

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1-9

A

• AARNet [4.18], [4.19]
• address resolution [3.02]
• ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) [2.13]
• AFRINIC (The African Network Information Centre) [4.08]
• AI3 (Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives/read: ei-triple-ai) [4.19]
• Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) [3.06]
• ALAC (At-Large Advisory Committee) [4.12]
• AlterNet [1.06], [4.18]
• Anonymous FTP [3.04], [3.05]
• APAN-JP [4.18]
• APNIC (Asia-Pacific Network Information Center) [4.07], [4.08]
• APOnet [4.19]
• APRICOT (the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies) [4.07]
• Arctic Fiber (now Quintillion Subsea Holdings LLC) [4.19]
• ARENA-PAC [4.19]
• ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) [4.08]
• ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) [1.06]
• ARPANET [1.06], [1.18], [3.04], [4.03], [4.08], [4.13], [4.17], [4.19]
• Arteria Networks [4.19]
• AS (Autonomous System) [1.20], [4.07], [4.08]
• ASCAP [3.14]
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) [1.08], [4.04]
• ASO (Address Supporting Organization) [4.12]
• AT&T [1.10]
• AT&T Jens [1.06]
• AUP(Acceptable Use Policies) [4.18]
• authentication [3.12]

B

• Bell Laboratories [1.06], [1.10]
• BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) [1.20]
• big data [3.21], [3.22]
• Big5 [4.04]
• Bill Joy [1.06], [4.04]
• BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) [1.16]
• bit [1.07], [1.09], [1.10], [1.13], [1.14]
• bit rate [1.09], [1.11]
• BITNET [4.17]
• blockchain [1.23], [3.13]
• Bob Kahn [4.12]
• bps (bits per second) [1.07], [1.09]
• BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) [1.06], [4.17]
• BSD UNIX [4.04]
• byte [1.07]

C

• CA (certificate authority) [3.10]
• cache [3.11]
• CAE-1 [4.19]
• Caesar cipher [1.12]
• CANARIE (the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry, and Education) [4.18]
• CCD (charge coupled device) [1.10]
• CCIRN (Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking) [4.18]
• ccNSO (Country Code Names Supporting Organizations) [4.12]
• ccTLD (country code TLD) [1.15]
• CDN (Content Delivery Network) [3.12], [3.15]
• CENIC [4.18]
• CGI (Common Gateway Interface) [3.06]
• character code [1.08]
• character encoding conversion [2.02]
• Cinia [4.19]
• circuit switching / line switching [1.18], [2.06], [2.07]
• client-server model [3.02], [3.03], [3.04], [3.05], [3.11], [3.23]
• Cloud [3.17], [3.18], [3.22]
• Cloud Computing [3.18], [3.19], [3.20]
• coaxial cable [1.04]
• compression [2.02], [3.14]
• congestion [3.11]
• Creative Commons license [1.11]
• CSI (Chugoku-Shikoku Internet Council) [4.17]
• CSNET [4.17]
• CSP (Certification Practice Statment) [3.10]
• CSRG [1.06]
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) [3.06], [4.04]

D

• DARPA [1.06]
• data gram [2.01], [2.05]
• David Conrad [4.07]
• David D. Clark [4.03]
• David J. Farber [4.13], [4.17]
• de facto standards [4.02], [4.03]
• de jure standards [4.02]
• DECNet [4.17]
• decoding [1.08]
• default route [1.19]
• Dennis Ritchie [4.04]
• Digital certificates [3.10]
• Digital signatures [3.09], [3.10]
• Digital transformation [4.21]
• DNS (Domain Name System) [1.16], [1.17], [3.02], [3.04], [3.11], [4.11], [4.12]
• DoE (Department of Energy) [4.17]
• domain [1.15], [4.08], [4.09], [4.11]
• domain name [1.14], [1.15], [1.16], [1.23]
• Dubbing 10 [1.11]
• DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) [2.14]
• Dynamic Port (also called private ports or ephemeral ports) [3.02]
• dynamic routing [1.19]

E

• EGP (Exterior Gateway Protocol) [1.20]
• encapsulation technology [3.12]
• encoding [1.08], [1.09], [1.10]
• encryption [1.12], [2.02], [2.19]
• Encryption technology [3.12]
• end system [3.02], [3.06], [3.14]
• end-to-end communication [3.19]
• Ethernet [1.04]
• EUC code [4.04]

F

• FDN [4.19]
• Flow Control [2.11]
• FNF (Far North Fiber) [4.19]
• Folder@home [3.21]
• fps (frames per second) [1.11]
• frame rate [1.11]
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) [3.02], [3.04], [3.05], [3.07]
• FTTH (Fiber To The Home) [2.13]

G

• GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee) [4.12]
• GB2312 [4.04]
• GÉANT [4.18], [4.19]
• GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) [1.10]
• global IP address [1.13]
• GNSO (Generic Names Supporting Organizations) [4.12]
• Gopher (The Internet Gopher Protocol) [3.04]
• grid computing [3.21]
• gTLD (generic TLD) [1.15]

H

• HEPnet-J [4.18]
• high-resolution audio [1.09]
• HTML [3.05], [3.06], [3.11]
• HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) [3.02], [3.05]
• HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) [3.05], [3.08]

I

• IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) [3.20]
• IAB (Internet Architecture Board) [4.13], [4.22]
• IAHC (International Ad Hoc Committee) [4.11]
• IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) [3.02], [4.08], [4.11], [4.12]
• IAWN (International Academic NetWorkshop) [4.17]
• ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) [1.15], [1.17], [3.02], [4.08], [4.09], [4.11], [4.12], [4.13]
• ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) [2.04]
• IEEE (US Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) [2.15], [4.02]
• IEPG (Intercontinental Engineering and Planning Group) [4.18]
• IESG (The Internet Engineering Steering Group) [4.12]
• IETF(the Internet Engineering Task Force) [2.03], [3.07], [4.02], [4.03], [4.11], [4.12], [4.13], [4.17]
• IGF (Internet Governance Forum) [4.12], [4.14]
• IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) [1.20]
• IIJ [1.06], [4.18]
• IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) [3.04], [3.18]
• Internet protocol stack [2.03]
• IoT (Internet of Things) [1.14], [2.19]
• IP (Internet Protocol) [1.06], [1.13], [1.14], [1.18], [1.19], [1.23], [2.01], [2.02], [2.03], [2.04], [2.05], [2.06], [2.07], [2.09], [2.10], [2.11], [2.12], [2.13], [2.15], [2.19], [3.02], [4.11]
• IP address [1.13], [1.14], [1.15], [1.16], [1.17], [1.20], [1.23], [2.04], [2.05], [2.10], [3.02], [3.03], [3.22], [3.23], [4.08]
• IP Anycast [3.11], [3.15]
• IP layer [2.05], [2.07], [2.09], [2.10]
• IP multicast [3.15]
• IP packet [1.18], [1.19], [3.16]
• IP telephony [3.16]
• IPv4 [1.13], [1.14], [2.04], [3.12], [4.08]
• IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) [1.14], [3.12], [4.08]
• IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) [4.12]
• ISC (Internet System Consortium) [1.16], [1.17]
• ISM band (Industrial Scientific and Medical band) [2.15]
• ISO(the International Organization for Standardization) [1.08], [1.15], [2.03], [4.02], [4.03], [4.04]
• ISOC (Internet Society) [4.11], [4.13]
• ISP (Internet service provider) [1.05], [1.06], [1.13], [1.19], [1.20], [1.23], [2.14], [4.07], [4.08], [4.16], [4.19]
• ITU-T [2.03]
• ITU-U [2.03]
• ITU(the International Telecommunication Union) [2.15], [3.10], [4.02], [4.13], [4.14]
• IX (Internet Exchange) [1.05], [4.07], [4.18]

J

• JANET [4.17]
• JANOG (JApan Network Operators’ Group) [4.07]
• Javascript [3.06]
• JGN (Japan Gigabit Network) [4.17], [4.18]
• JIS [1.08]
• JIS code [4.04]
• JISC(Japanese Industrial Standards Committee) [4.02]
• jitter value [3.14]
• Jonathan Bruce Postel [4.08]
• JPEG [1.10]
• JPNIC (Japan Network Information Center) [4.08]
• JPRS (Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.) [4.09]
• JUNET (Japan Unix Network) [1.06], [4.17], [4.22]

K

• Ken Thompson [1.06]
• key distribution problem [3.08]
• KREOnet [4.18]

L

• LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry) [4.08]
• LAN (Local Area Network) [1.04], [1.06], [1.13], [1.18], [1.19], [1.20], [2.02], [2.15], [2.16], [3.12], [4.02]
• Latin-1 [4.04]
• Lawrence Landweber/Larry Landwever [4.13], [4.17]
• Linux [1.06]
• loop [1.19]

M

• MAFFIN (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries research Network) [4.18]
• Mbone [3.15]
• MEXT (Ministry of Research and Education Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) [4.18]
• Mobile IP [3.12]
• modem [2.13]
• Moore’s law [3.06]
• MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer-3） [1.09], [1.11]
• MPEG [1.11]
• Multistakeholder model [4.12]

N

• name resolution [1.16], [1.17]
• name server [1.16]
• NANOG (The North American Network Operator’s Group) [4.07]
• NAOJ network (the network of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) [4.18]
• National Center for Scientific Information and Technology (currently, the National Institute of Informatics (NII)) [4.18]
• NCP (Network Control Program) [1.06]
• NCSA Mosaic [3.05]
• Netscape Navigator [3.06]
• network architectures [2.01], [2.02]
• Network News [3.04]
• network standardization [2.01], [2.03]
• NFT (Non-Fungible Token) [1.11]
• NIC (Network Information Center) [4.08]
• NICT (the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) [4.17], [4.18]
• NIFTY-Serve [1.06]
• NIR (National Internet Registries) [4.08], [4.12]
• NOG (Network Operators’ Groups) [4.07]
• NomCom (Nominating Committee) [4.12]
• NORDUnet [4.19]
• NORTH (Network Organization for Research adn Technology in Hokkaido) [4.17]
• NREN [4.18], [4.19]
• NRO (Number Resrouce Organization) [4.08]
• NSF (National Science Foundation) [4.13], [4.17], [4.19]
• NSFNET [4.17]

O

• octet [1.14]
• ONU (Optical Network Unit) [1.04]
• OS (operating system) [1.06], [1.08]
• OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) [1.19], [1.20]
• OSS (open source software) [1.06]
• overlay network [3.12], [3.15]

P

• P2P (Peer to Peer) networks [3.13]
• PaaS (Platform as a Service) [3.20]
• PACCOM (PACific COMmunications network) [4.17]
• Pacific Wave [4.18]
• packet drops [3.14]
• packet loss [2.11], [3.14]
• packet switching [1.06], [1.18], [1.19], [1.23], [2.06]
• Peering [4.07]
• PGP [4.21]
• PIR (Public Interest Registry) [4.12]
• PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) [3.10]
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics) [1.10]
• policy-based routing [1.20]
• POP (Post Office Protocol) [3.04]
• port number [2.05], [2.10], [3.02], [3.03], [3.23]
• private IP address [1.13], [1.14]
• protocol [1.02], [1.03], [1.06], [1.13], [1.16], [1.23], [2.01], [2.02], [2.03], [2.04], [2.05], [2.06], [2.07], [2.09], [2.10], [3.14], [4.02], [4.03], [4.08], [4.11]
• protocol number [2.04]
• proxy server [3.11]
• PSINET [1.06]
• PTI (Public Technical Identifiers) [4.08]
• Public key cryptography [3.08], [3.09], [3.23]

Q

• quantization [1.09], [1.10]

R

• radio frequency allocation [4.02]
• RALO (Regional At-Large Organizations) [4.12]
• Registrar [4.09], [4.12]
• Registry [4.09], [4.12]
• REN [4.16], [4.17], [4.18], [4.19]
• resolver [1.16]
• Retransmission Control [2.11]
• RFC (Request For Comment) [2.03], [3.04], [4.03], [4.22]
• RGB [1.10]
• RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) [1.17], [4.08]
• RIR (Regional Internet Registries) [4.08], [4.12]
• RJ (Registered Jack) [1.04]
• Robert Melancton Metcalfe [1.04]
• root domain [1.15]
• root name server [1.16], [1.17], [4.10]
• Root Server System [4.12]
• Root Zone management [4.12]
• route [1.19]
• router [1.03], [1.04], [1.13], [1.18], [1.19], [1.20], [2.02], [2.04]
• routing control [1.19], [1.20]
• routing table [1.19], [1.20]
• RSA cryptosystem [3.08], [3.09]
• RSSAC (Root Server System Advisory Committee) [4.12]
• RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) [3.14]

S

• SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) [3.20]
• sampling [1.09], [1.10]
• SATNET [4.19]
• sequence Control [2.11]
• sequence number [2.06], [2.10]
• SETI@home [3.21]
• SFTP [3.08]
• Shift-JIS code [4.04]
• SINET (Science Information Network) [4.18]
• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) [3.16]
• SLA (Service Level Agreement) [3.19]
• SLD (Second Level Domain) [1.15]
• Smart Grid [1.20]
• SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) [2.03], [3.02], [3.04], [3.18]
• SNA (Systems Network Architecture) [2.01]
• SO (Supporting Organizations) [4.12]
• SOI Asia (School on the Internet Asia) [4.19]
• SPF (Shortest Path First) [1.19]
• SSAC (Security and Stability Advisory Committee) [4.12]
• SSH (Secure Shell Protocol) [3.02]
• static routing [1.19]
• SUNET (MHSnet) [4.17]
• SURFnet (Samenwerkende Universitaire Reken Faciliteiten; English: Co-operative University Computing Facilities) [4.18]
• switch [1.03], [1.04], [2.02]
• Symmetric key cryptography [3.08]
• symmetric peering [1.05]
• SYN packet [2.07], [2.10]
• System Port numbers [3.02]

T

• TCP (Transport Control Protocol) [1.06], [1.19], [2.03], [2.04], [2.05], [2.06], [2.07], [2.09], [2.10], [2.11], [2.12], [3.02], [3.03], [3.14]
• TCP/IP [1.06], [1.23], [2.02], [2.03], [2.04], [2.05], [2.10], [2.13], [3.04], [3.08], [3.23], [4.02], [4.03], [4.13]
• Ted Nelson [3.05]
• TELNET [3.02]
• the C programming language [4.04]
• Theodor Holm Nelson [3.05]
• Tim Berners-Lee [3.05], [3.06], [4.14]
• TLD (Top Level Domain) [1.15], [1.17], [4.09], [4.11], [4.12], [4.13]
• TLS (Transport Layer Secure) [3.10]
• Transit [4.07]
• TTL (Time to Live) [1.19], [2.04]
• TTS (Time Sharing System) [3.07]
• tunneling [3.12], [3.15]

U

• UDP (User Datagram Protocol) [2.03], [2.04], [2.05], [2.06], [2.07], [3.02], [3.14]
• Unicast [3.11], [3.15]
• Unicode [1.08], [4.04]
• UNIX [1.06], [1.08], [3.04], [3.07], [4.04], [4.17], [4.21]
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator) [3.04]
• USENET [3.04], [4.17]
• user ports [3.02]
• UTP cable [1.04]
• UUCP (Unix-to-Unix copy) [1.06], [3.04], [4.17], [4.18]
• UUNET [1.06], [4.18]

V

• Verisign [1.17], [4.09]
• Vint Cerf [4.12], [4.13]
• Virtual Circuit [2.06], [2.10], [2.11], [3.02]
• VoIP (Voice Over IP) [2.13], [3.16]
• VPN (Virtual Private Network) [3.12]

W

• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) [4.02], [4.13]
• WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) [2.14]
• Web crawling [3.22]
• Web2.0 [3.06]
• WebSocket [3.06]
• well-known port numbers [3.02]
• WGIG (Working Group on Internet Governance) [4.14]
• WHATWG [4.02]
• Wi-Fi [1.04], [1.06], [1.23], [2.15] [2.16]
• WIDE Interent [4.17], [4.18]
• WIDE Project [1.17], [4.18], [4.19]
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) [4.11]
• WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) [4.14]
• www (World Wide Web) [1.06], [1.15], [3.02], [3.04], [3.05], [3.06], [3.08], [4.02], [4.03]

X

Y

Z

• zombie packet [1.19]

1-9

• 6bone [3.12]