Digital Technical Standards -Abbreviations & Acronyms
Standards work comes with a language of its own. This glossary collects the abbreviations you’ll come across throughout the DTS Toolkit;the bodies that write the standards, and the telecoms, security, web and EU regulatory terms that sit alongside them ,so you can look up anything unfamiliar without breaking your stride.
Standards Development Organisations (SDOs)
SDOStandards Development Organization
BSIBritish Standards Institution
NSBNational Standards Body
ETSIEuropean Telecommunications Standards Institute
IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE SAIEEE Standards Association
IETFInternet Engineering Task Force
ISOInternational Organization for Standardization
IECInternational Electrotechnical Commission
ITUInternational Telecommunication Union
ITU-TITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
ITU-RITU Radiocommunication Sector
ITU-DITU Development Sector
W3CWorld Wide Web Consortium
3GPP3rd Generation Partnership Project
IETInstitution of Engineering and Technology
CENEuropean Committee for Standardization
CENELECEuropean Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
ESOEuropean Standards Organization
ARIBAssociation of Radio Industries and Businesses (Japan)
ATISAlliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (North America)
CCSAChina Communications Standards Association
TSDSITelecommunications Standards Development Society, India
TTATelecommunications Technology Association (South Korea)
TTCTelecommunication Technology Committee (Japan)
JTC 1Joint Technical Committee 1 (ISO/IEC)
SCSubcommittee
TCTechnical Committee
WGWorking Group
TSGTechnical Specification Group
ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute
DINDeutsches Institut für Normung (German standards body)
AFNORAssociation Française de Normalisation (French standards body)
OASISOrganization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
O-RANOpen Radio Access Network Alliance
WHATWGWeb Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
Telecoms
5G NR5G New Radio
LTELong-Term Evolution (4G)
GSMGlobal System for Mobile Communications
UMTSUniversal Mobile Telecommunications System
eMBBenhanced Mobile Broadband
URLLCUltra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications
mMTCmassive Machine-Type Communications
IMTInternational Mobile Telecommunications
IMT-2020ITU framework for 5G
RANRadio Access Network
gNBNext Generation Node B (5G base station)
5GC5G Core Network
MIMOMultiple-Input Multiple-Output
V2XVehicle to Everything
NTNNon-Terrestrial Networks
IoTInternet of Things
UEUser Equipment
SIMSubscriber Identity Module
MWCMobile World Congress
Internet
RFCRequest for Comments
TCPTransmission Control Protocol
IPInternet Protocol
HTTPHypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPSHTTP Secure
DNSDomain Name System
TLSTransport Layer Security
QUICQuick UDP Internet Connections
I-DInternet-Draft
BCPBest Current Practice
IABInternet Architecture Board
IESGInternet Engineering Steering Group
IANAInternet Assigned Numbers Authority
IRTFInternet Research Task Force
Web
HTMLHyperText Markup Language
CSSCascading Style Sheets
SVGScalable Vector Graphics
DOMDocument Object Model
WebRTCWeb Real-Time Communication
WCAGWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines
WAI-ARIAWeb Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications
JSONJavaScript Object Notation
JSON-LDJSON Linked Data
APIApplication Programming Interface
TPACTechnical Plenary and Advisory Committee (W3C)
Security
ISMSInformation Security Management System
CIAConfidentiality, Integrity, Availability
PIIPersonally Identifiable Information
PIMSPrivacy Information Management System
CSIRTComputer Security Incident Response Team
SOCSecurity Operations Center
IACSIndustrial Automation and Control Systems
OTOperational Technology
ICSIndustrial Control Systems
SCADASupervisory Control and Data Acquisition
PKIPublic Key Infrastructure
VPNVirtual Private Network
Artificial Intelligence
AIArtificial Intelligence
MLMachine Learning
AIMSAI Management System
SC 42ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 42 — Artificial Intelligence
EU Law
NIS2Network and Information Security Directive 2
CRACyber Resilience Act
GDPRGeneral Data Protection Regulation
DORADigital Operational Resilience Act
EAAEuropean Accessibility Act
CEConformité Européenne (European Conformity marking)
ENEuropean Norm / Standard
Standards & Document Types
BSBritish Standard
PASPublicly Available Specification
TRTechnical Report
TSTechnical Specification
WDWorking Draft (W3C)
CRCandidate Recommendation (W3C)
PRProposed Recommendation (W3C)
RECW3C Recommendation
AmdAmendment
Policy
WTOWorld Trade Organization
TBTTechnical Barriers to Trade
WSCWorld Standards Cooperation
DSITDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology (UK)
NCSCNational Cyber Security Centre (UK)
SDGSustainable Development Goals
Technology
ICTInformation and Communications Technology
DLTDistributed Ledger Technology
SBOMSoftware Bill of Materials
PCI DSSPayment Card Industry Data Security Standard
SWEBOKSoftware Engineering Body of Knowledge
CyBOKCyber Security Body of Knowledge
