[ee122] updated acronym & concept lists

vern at cs.berkeley.edu vern at cs.berkeley.edu
Fri Dec 7 11:11:48 PST 2007


I've added a few more acronyms and concepts to the lists.  Here are
the differences - next two messages are the updated versions of the
complete lists.

		Vern


Index: Acronyms.txt
===================================================================
--- Acronyms.txt	(revision 287)
+++ Acronyms.txt	(revision 291)
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
 If no pronunciation is given, then it is each letter individually, e.g.,
 TCP = "tee-sea-pea".
 
-Acronyms we'll cover up to the MidTerm
+Acronyms we'll cover up to the MidTerm (and some covered later)
 --------------------------------------
 ACK	pronounced as spelled
+AES
 ARP	pronounced as spelled
 ARQ
+CA
 CDN
 CIDR	pronounced "cider"
 CNAME	pronounced "See-name"
 CRC
 CSMA
 CSMA/CD
+CTS	sometimes pronounced as its full name, "Clear To Send"
+DES	pronounced either "dee-ee-ess" or "dez"
 DF	This is the only IPv4 header bit that people commonly talked about.
 DNS
 FDM	not in fact widely used
@@ -27,7 +31,9 @@
 IPv6
 ISP
 LAN	pronounced as spelled; local area network
+MACA	pronounced "macaw"
 MAC	pronounced as spelled; often combined to "MAC address"
+MD5
 MIME	pronounced as spelled
 MTU
 MX
@@ -41,14 +47,19 @@
 RFC
 RIR
 RR
+RSA
+RTS	sometimes pronounced as its full name, "Request To Send"
 RTT
 SACK	pronounced as spelled
+SHA-1	pronounced "shah-one"
 SMTP
 SONET	pronounced "sonnet"
+SSL
 TCP
 TDM
 TDMA
 TLD
+TLS
 TOS	pronounced "toss"
 TTL
 UDP
Index: Concepts.txt
===================================================================
--- Concepts.txt	(revision 287)
+++ Concepts.txt	(revision 291)
@@ -6,8 +6,13 @@
 Additive-Increase Multiplicative-Decrease
 Admission Control
 Application Gateway
+Authentication
+Authorization
 Autonomous System
+Availability
 Best Effort Delivery
+Bot
+Botnet
 Bridge
 Broadcast
 Buffer overflow
@@ -15,7 +20,7 @@
 Cache Poisoning
 Caching
 Carrier Sense
-Certificate
+Certificate  (sometimes abbreviated as "cert")
 Checksum
 Circuit Switching
 Classful Addressing
@@ -24,11 +29,13 @@
 Clock Recovery
 Collision Avoidance
 Collision Detection
+Confidentiality
 Congestion Avoidance
 Congestion Control
 Connection-oriented
 Connectionless
 Content Distribution Network
+Cookie
 Count-to-Infinity
 Cryptographically Strong Hash Function
 Cut-through
@@ -65,6 +72,7 @@
 Initial Sequence Number
 Input-queued router
 IntServ
+Integrity
 Interdomain
 Intradomain
 Iterative query
@@ -88,8 +96,10 @@
 Network Neutrality
 Network Prefix
 Non-repudiation
+Nonce
 Output-queued router
 Overlay
+Overprovision
 PMTU Discovery
 Packet-Switching
 Parity
@@ -116,6 +126,7 @@
 Self-Clocking
 Sentinel
 Sequence Number
+Session Key
 Sliding Window
 Slotted Aloha
 Slow Start
@@ -137,3 +148,4 @@
 Tunneling
 Wide Area Network
 Window Scaling
+Worm


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