4 Abbreviations

The following abbreviations and acronyms are used in the e-GIF v3.2.

ADL Advanced Distributed Learning

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

B2B Business-to-business

BPEL4WS Business Process Execution Language for Web Services

CSV Comma Separated Values

CFL Controlled Vocabulary or Code Lists

DOM Document Object Model

DNS Domain Name Server

DSML Directory Services Markup Language

DSS Digital Signature Services

DTD Document Type Definition

EbXML (RIM, RS, MSG) E-business XML (Registry Information Model, Registry Services, Messaging Services)

EDI Electronic data exchange

ESA Emergency Services and Government Administration

ESP IP Encapsulation Security Protocol

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GCSB Government Communications Security Bureau

GIF Graphical Interchange Format

GML Geography Markup Language

HL7 Health Level 7

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol running over SSL

ICT Branch Information and Communication Technologies Branch of the State Services Commission

IMS Instructional Management System

IPsec IP Security Authentication Header

ITU-T International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

MIME Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions

NAT Network Address Translation

NTP Network Time Protocol

NZGLS New Zealand Government Locator Service

NZGMS New Zealand Government Geospatial Metadata Standard

NZSIT New Zealand Security of Information Technology

OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

ODFOA Open Document Format for Office Applications (Open Document)

OIDS Schema Object Identifiers

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PNG Portable Network Graphic

RDF Resource Description Framework

RSS Rich Site Summary

RTP Real-time Transport Protocol

SAML Security Assertion Markup Language

SAX Simple API for XML

SCORM Shareable Content Object Reference Model

SCP Session Control Protocol

SDMX Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange

S.E.E.™ PKI Secure Electronic Environment Public Key Infrastructure

S-HTTP Secure HTTP

SIGS Security in the Government Sector

SIP Session Initiation Protocol

S/MIME Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol

SSH Secure Shell

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

SVG Scalar Vector Graphics

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

TLS Transport Layer Security

TNEF Transport Neutral Encapsulation Formats

UBL Universal Business Language

UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UML Unified Modelling Language

URN Uniform Resource Name

UTC (MSL) Universal Time Clock (Measurement Standards Laboratory)

UTF Unicode Transformation Format

VPN Virtual Private Network

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WebDAV World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning

WFS Web Feature Server

WMS Web Map Server

WSDL Web Services Definition Language

WS-I Web Services-Interoperability Organisation

xACML Extensible Access Control Markup Language

xBRL Extensible Business Reporting Language

xCIL Extensible Customer Information Language

xCRL Extensible Customer Relationships Language

XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language

XMI XML Metadata Interchange

XML Extensible Markup Language

XML-DSig XML Digital Signatures

XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

xNAL Extensible Name and Address Language

XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language

XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations