DCE Acronyms and Abbreviations
This topic consists of a table that lists the acronyms and abbreviations used in DCE.
DCE Acronyms and Abbreviations
| Acronym/Abbreviation | Definition |
| ACF | Attribute Configuration File |
| ACL | Access Control List |
| ACSE | Association Control Service Element |
| AES | Application Environment Specification |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation One |
| AVA | Attribute Value Assertion |
| BER | Basic Encoding Rules |
| BOS | Basic OverSeer Server |
| C | Country |
| C-ISAM | C-language Indexed Sequential Access Method |
| CAE | Common Application Environment |
| CCITT | International Telegraph & Telephone |
| Consultative Committee | |
| CDS | Cell Directory Service |
| CDSPI | Cell Directory Service Portable Interface |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| DAP | Directory Access Protocol |
| DB | Database |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DFS | Distributed File Service |
| DIB | Directory Information Base |
| DIT | Directory Information Tree |
| DN | Distinguished Name |
| DNS | Domain Name Service |
| DSA | Directory System Agent |
| DSP | Directory System Protocol |
| DTS | Distributed Time Service |
| DUA | Directory User Agent |
| EPAC | Extended Privilege Attribute Certificate |
| FIFO | First In, First Out |
| GDA | Global Directory Agent |
| GDS | Global Directory Service |
| GSS | Generic Security Service |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LFS | Local File System |
| LRU | Least Recently Used |
| MAVROS | Not an acronym |
| MS-DOS | Microsoft Disk Operating System |
| NA | Not Applicable |
| NetBIOS | Network Version of Basic Input/Output System |
| NSAP | Network Service Access Point (OSI) |
| NSI | Name Service Independent |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol |
| O | Organization |
| OS | Operating System |
| OS/2 | Operating System/2 |
| OSF | Open Software Foundation |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| OSS | OSI Session Service |
| OU | Organizational Unit |
| PCS | Portable Character Set |
| RDN | Relative Distinguished Name |
| ROM | Read-Only Memory |
| ROS | Remote Operation Service |
| ROSE | Remote Operation Service Elements |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RR | Resource Record (DNS) |
| RR | Round Robin (scheduling) |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDF | Time Differential Factor |
| TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
| TLI | Transport Layer Interface |
| TPI | Time Provider Interface |
| UDP/IP | User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| UFS | UNIX File System |
| UTC | Coordinated Universal Time |
| UUID | Universal Unique Identifier |
| VFS | Virtual File System |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| XOM | X/Open OSI-Abstract-Data Manipulation |
| XDS | X/Open Directory Service |
| XTI | X/Open Transport Interface |