| AAC |
Advanced Audio Coding |
| ABI |
Application Binary Interface |
| AMD |
Advanced Micro Device |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| APDIP |
Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme |
| API |
Application Program Interface |
| ARPANET |
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASF |
Advanced Systems Format |
| AVC |
Advanced Video Coding |
| AVI |
Audio Video Interleave |
| BIS |
Bureau of Indian Standards |
| BSA |
Business Software Alliance |
| BSD |
Berkeley Software Distribution |
| BSI |
British Standards Institute |
| ccTLD |
Country Code Top-Level Domain |
| CD |
Compact Disc |
| CDDL |
Common Development and Distribution License |
| CE |
Consumer Electronics |
| CII |
Computer-Implemented Invention |
| COTS |
Common Off The Shelf |
| DNS |
Domain Name Service |
| DOC |
Document |
| DOS |
Disk Operating System |
| DTD |
Document Type Definition |
| DVD |
Digital Video Disc |
| EC |
European Commission |
| ECMA |
European Computer Manufacturers Association |
| EEE |
Embrace, Extend and Extinguish |
| e-GIF |
e-Government Interoperability Framework |
| EICTA |
European Information, Communications and Consumer Technology Industry Association |
| EIF |
European Interoperability Framework |
| ELF |
Executable and Linking Format |
| EPC |
European Patent Convention |
| EPO |
European Patent Office |
| ETRM |
Enterprise Technology Reference Model |
| ETSI |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| EU |
European Union |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions |
| FAT |
File Allocation Table |
| FHS |
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard |
| FLAC |
Free Lossless Audio Codec |
| FOSS |
Free/Open Source Software |
| FSF |
Free Software Foundation |
| FSG |
Free Standards Group |
| G2B |
Government to Business |
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
| GL |
Graphics Library |
| GNOME |
GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| GNU |
Gnu's Not Unix |
| GPL |
General Public License (GNU) |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communications |
| GUI |
Graphics User Interface |
| HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPd |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon |
| I18N |
Internationalization |
| IA |
Internet Architecture |
| IAB |
Internet Architecture Board |
| IANA |
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| ICT |
Information and Communications Technology |
| ICTU |
Dutch Organization for Information and Communications Technology |
| IDABC |
Interoperable Delivery of European e-Government Services to Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens |
| IEC |
International Electro-Technical Commission |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IEEE-SA |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association |
| IESG |
Internet Engineering Steering Group |
| IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IJG |
Independent JPEG Group |
| IMAP |
Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IOSN |
International Open Source Network |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPR |
Intellectual Property Rights |
| IS |
Information System |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| ISOC |
Internet Society |
| ISV |
Independent Software Vendor |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
| ITU-D |
International Telecommunication Union - Development Sector |
| ITU-R |
International Telecommunication Union - Radio Communication Sector |
| ITU-T |
International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector |
| JFIF |
Joint Photographic Experts Group File Interchange Format |
| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JTC |
Joint Technical Committee |
| KDE |
K Desktop Environment |
| L10N |
Localization |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LCID |
Locale Identifier |
| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LSB |
Linux Standard Base |
| LZW |
Lempel-Ziv-Welch |
| M17N-li |
Multilingualization library |
| MAN |
Metropolitan Area Network |
| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MLP |
Mozilla Localization Project |
| MNCC |
Malaysian National Computer Confederation |
| MOV |
Movie File Format |
| MP3 |
Motion Pictures Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3 |
| MP4 |
Motion Pictures Experts Group-4 Part 14 |
| MPEG |
Motion Pictures Experts Group |
| MPL |
Mozilla Public License |
| MS |
Microsoft |
| MUI |
Multilingual User Interface |
| MyGIF |
Malaysian Government Interoperability Framework |
| NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NFS |
Network File System |
| OASIS |
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| ODP |
OpenDocument Presentation |
| ODS |
OpenDocument Spreadsheet |
| ODT |
OpenDocument Text |
| OOo |
OpenOffice.org |
| OpenI18N |
Open Internationalization |
| ORG |
Organization |
| OS |
Operating System |
| OSDL |
Open Source Development Labs |
| OSI |
Open Source Initiative |
| OSOSS |
Open Standards and Open Source Software |
| PAG |
Patent Advisory Group |
| PAS |
Publicly Available Specification |
| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PCL |
Printer Control Language |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PIKOM |
Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia |
| PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
| POSIX |
Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX |
| PPC |
Power Personal Computer |
| PPT |
PowerPoint |
| RAND |
Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory |
| RF |
Royalty-Free |
| RFC |
Request for Comments |
| RIFF |
Resource Interchange File Format |
| RPM |
Red Hat Package Manager |
| RTF |
Rich Text Format |
| SDO |
Standard Development Organization |
| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SMPTE |
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSO |
Standard-Setting Organization |
| STD |
Standard |
| SVG |
Scalable Vector Graphics |
| SVID |
System V Interface Definition |
| SXC |
StarOffice Calc |
| SXI |
StarOffice Impression |
| SXW |
StarOffice Writer |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format |
| TV |
Television |
| UCS |
Universal Character Set |
| UDDI |
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration |
| UFO |
Uniform Fee Only |
| UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
| UNICODE |
Unique, Universal and Uniform Character enCoding |
| USA |
United States of America |
| UTF |
Universal Character Set Transformation Format |
| VC |
Video Codec |
| VCD |
Video Compact Disc |
| VHS |
Video Home System |
| VMS |
Virtual Memory System |
| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAV |
WAVE form Audio Format |
| Wi-Fi |
Wireless Fidelity |
| WMA |
Windows Media Audio |
| WMV |
Windows Media Video |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
| XLS |
Excel |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
| XPath |
Extensible Markup Language Path Language |
| XPM |
XPixMap |
| XSL |
Extensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSL-FO |
Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects |
| XSLT |
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations |