- IBGP
- Interior
Border Gateway Protocol
A pair of routers within a single
Autonomous System administrative domain which
exchange routes using
BGP.
- ICANN
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the not-for-profit
organization that is responsible for domain name registration, based in
Marina Del Rey, California.
- ICMP
- Internet Control Message Protocol, the standard error and control
message protocol for Internet systems. Defined in
RFC
792. The most well
known use of ICMP messages is the Echo Request - Echo Reply sequence used
by ping.
- Icon
- A graphical image representing a (usually easily recognized) function
or control, usually reacts to being selected by performing some useful or
entertaining action. A primary feature of most
GUIs.
- IEEE
- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
IEEE is the world's largest technical
professional society.
- IEEE 802.3
- The IEEE standard defining the
ethernet communications standard.
- IETF
- The Internet Engineering Task Force, The IETF is the
protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet, the
IETF home page
provides specific information in excruciating detail.
- IKE
- Internet Key Exchange.
- IMHO
- Shorthand for In My Humble Opinion.
See also:
ROTFL, and
TMK.
- Internet
- A loose confederation of networks around the world, the networks that make
up the Internet are connected through several backbone networks.
The Internet grew out of the U.S. Government
ARPAnet project, and is
specifically designed to have no central governing authority or
'root', node.
- Internic
- The
Internic provides the primary directory
and registration services for the American part of the Internet.
- Intranet
- A private network using standard internet protocols but with limited or
no connectivity to the public
internet. An intranet is often connected to the
public networks via a firewall.
- IP
- Internet Protocol, the standard communications scheme used for internet
connected hosts, as specified in
RFC
791.
- IPSEC
- Internet Protocol SECurity, a set of protocols for encryption of
IP traffic. There are two IPSEC modes, 'payload' encryption where only the
packet data portion is encrypted, and 'tunnel' where the original packet
headers are encrypted and encapsulated in another packet.
Defined in
RFC
2401.
- IRC
- Acronym for
Internet Relay Chat,
a world-wide distributed live chat system.
- ISAKMP
- Pronounced /eye-suh-kemp/,
Internet Security Association Key Management Protocol, a authentication
system for the secure exchange of encryption keys. Defined in
RFC
2408.
See also:
IKE,
IPSEC
VPN.
- ISDN
- Acronym for Integrated Services Digital Network, a high-speed digital
phone system that supersedes
POTS.
See also:
PRI and the
ISDN Glossary.
(lorenzen)
- ISP
- Acronym for Internet Service Provider, these are the companies that provide
access to end users of the Internet, as opposed to
NSPs. There are several lists of regional ISPs,
including NetUSA.
- ITU
- Acronym for United National International Telecommunications Union.