 | Accredited Standards
Committee T1 Telecommunications - Sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and
accredited by the American National Standards Institute to create network
interconnections and interoperability standards for the United States. |
| Alliance for
Telecommunications Industry Solutions - Sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and
accredited by the American National Standards Institute to create network
interconnections and interoperability standards for the United States. |
| American National
Standards Institute (ANSI) - Administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary
standardization system. |
| American Registry for
Internet Number (ARIN) - is a non-profit organization for administration and registration of
Internet Protocol (IP) numbers for the following geographical areas: North
America, South America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. |
| ATM/Frame
Relay Forum - an association of vendors, carriers, users and
consultants committed to the education, promotion, and implementation of Frame
Relay in accordance with international standards. |
| Bluetooth Special
Interest Group - Founded by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba, Bluetooth is determined to
take the necessary action to make technology a global standard for wireless
connectivity. |
| British Approvals
Board for Telecommunications (BABT) - is a private,
independent company and the leading telecommunications approval body in
Europe. |
| Common Carrier
Bureau - The Common Carrier Bureau is responsible for administering the
FCC's policies concerning telephone companies that provide long distance and
local service to consumers. |
| Competition
Bureau - administer and enforces telemarketing in Canada |
| Computer Incident Advisory
- provides on-call technical assistance and information to
Department of Energy (DOE) sites faced with computer security incidents. This
central incident handling capability is one component of all encompassing
service provided to the DOE community. The other services are: awareness,
training, and education; trend, threat, vulnerability data collection and
analysis; and technology watch. |
| Enterprise Computer
Telephony Forum (ECTF) - facilitates standardized computer telephony systems. |
| European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) - a non-profit
organization whose mission is to determine and produce e telecommunications
standards. |
| Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) - encourages competition in all
communications markets and to protect the public interest. |
|
GO-MVIP
-
the
Global Organization for Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol is a multi-national,
multi-vendor industry group.
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| GPRS Applications
Alliance - refer to the Mobile Applications Initiative
(MAI). |
| Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) - technical
objectives center on advancing the theory and practice of electrical,
electronics, and computer engineering and science. |
| Institute
for Telecommunication Sciences - research and engineering arm of the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration. |
| International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) - formerly the International
Consultative Committee for Radio (CCIR) and International Consultative
Committee on Telegraphy & Telephony (CCITT) is headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland and is and international organization within which
governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks
and services. |
| International Standards
Organization (ISO) - a non-governmental organization established in
1947. Its mission is to promote the development of standardization and
related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the
international exchange of goods and services. |
| International
Telecommunications Union - headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, The ITU is the leading publisher of
telecommunication technology, regulatory and standards information. |
| Internet
Architecture Board (IAB) - a technical advisory group of the
Internet Society. |
| Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority - the central coordinating functions of the global Internet. |
| Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) - an open international community of network designers, operators, vendors,
and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and
the smooth operation of the Internet. |
| Internet
Request for Comments - documents the written definitions
of the protocols and policies of the Internet. |
| Internet Research Task
Force - promotes research of importance to the evolution of the future Internet by
creating focused, long-term and small Research Groups working on topics related
to Internet protocols, applications, architecture and technology. |
| Internet Societal Task
Force - identifies ways in which the Internet can be a positive
force in social and economic dimensions. |
| Internet
Society - provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the
Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet
infrastructure standards. |
| Internet Telephony
Consortium - firms and academics who collaborate on research into technical,
economic, strategic and policy issues that arise from the convergence of
telecommunications and the Internet. |
| Mobile
Applications Initiative (MAI)- The Ericsson Mobile
Applications Initiative (MAI) Members Program enables Members to
develop, promote, and market their products, services, and solutions
that operate in a GPRS enabled Mobile Internet environment. In the near
future, MAI will also be able to assist in efforts to evolve
applications to support the future Mobile Internet technologies of EDGE
and WCDMA - and also to assist in the creation of applications built
specifically for these technologies. |
| National Academies of Emergency
Dispatch - a standard-setting organization for all aspects of
Emergency Dispatch. |
| National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - established by
Congress to assist industry in the development of technology, to improve
product quality, to modernize manufacturing processes, to ensure product
reliability, and to facilitate rapid commercialization of products based
on new scientific discoveries. |
| The Universal Serial
Bus Home Page
Underwriters Laboratory - is
an independent, not-for-profit product safety testing and certification
organization. |
| WAP
Forum: Industry organization for the Wireless Application
Protocol standard, which allows for the delivery of applications and content to
networked appliances. |
| Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) - handles all FCC domestic wireless
telecommunications programs and policies, except those involving satellite
communications or broadcasting, including licensing, enforcement, and regulatory
functions. Wireless communications services include cellular telephone, paging,
personal communications services, public safety, and other commercial and
private radio services. The Bureau also is responsible for implementing the
competitive bidding authority for spectrum auctions, given to the Commission by
the 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. |
| World
Wide Web Consortium - founded in October 1994 to lead
the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols
that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. |
