Glossary

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Glossary

Index: A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z

3DES Three-pass Data Encryption Standard (168-bit key encryption)

A [Index]

AA Attribute Authority

AA Authentication and Authorisation

AAA Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting

AAI Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure

AARC Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration

AAu Attribute Authority

ABFAB Application Bridging for Federated Access Beyond Web

AC Access Control

ACD Access Control Device

ACD Access Control Domain

ACIA Alliance Common Information Architecture

AEGIS AARC Engagement Group for Infrastructures

AIRT Application for Incident Response Teams

API Application Programming Interface

AR Attribute Requester

ARP Attribute Release Policy

AS Authentication and Authorisation Service

AS Authentication Server

ASP Authorisation Service Provider

AUP Acceptable Use Policy

AuthN Authentication

authN Number of authentications

AuthZ Authorisation

AuthZS Authorisation Service

AWS Amazon Web Services

B [Index]

BCP Best Common Practice

BMS Bio-Medical Sciences

C [Index]

CA Candidate

CA Certificate Authority

CAMS Central Authentication Management System

CAT Configuration Assistant Tool (eduroam)

CEF Connecting Europe Facility

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CLAW The Crisis Management Workshop for the GÉANT Community (formerly Crisis Leadership in Action Workshop)

CMPA Contract Management Policy Authority

CoCo GÉANT data protection Code of Conduct

CRL Certificate Revocation List

CSIRT Computer Security Incident Response Team

CSP Cloud Service Provider

CT Certificate Transparency

CUI Chargeable User Identity

D [Index]

DDoS Distributed Denial of Service

DEISA Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications

DI4R Digital Infrastructures for Research

Diameter Protocol for providing an Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting (AAA) framework for applications such as network access or IP mobility

DOI Digital Object Identifier

DoS Denial of Service

E [Index]

EAC eduGAIN Access Check

EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol

EAP-EKE EAP-Encrypted Key Exchange

EAP-FAST Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunnelling

EAP-GTC Extensible Authentication Protocol with Generic Token Card payload

EAP-MD5 Extensible Authentication Protocol with Message Digest Nr. 5 payload

EAPoL Extensible Authentication Protocol over Local Area Network

EAP-OTP Extensible Authentication Protocol with One-Time Password payload

EAP-PWD EAP-Password

EAP-SIM Extensible Authentication Protocol with Subscriber Identification Module payload

EAP-TLS Extensible Authentication Protocol Transport Layer Security

EAP-TTLS Extensible Authentication Protocol Tunnelled Transport Layer Security

EARC eduGAIN Attribute Release Check

EC European Commission, the executive body of the EU

ECCS eduGAIN Connectivity Check Service

EDI European Data Infrastructure

eduGAIN AAI confederation interconnecting national and community-wide R&E identity federations

eduPERT A federated PERT structure

eduroam education roaming – International roaming service for users in R&E

eduroam-ng eduroam-next generation

EEA European Economic Area

eID Electronic Identification

eIDAS Electronic Identification and Signature

eIDAS electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services

EOSC European Open Science Cloud

ER Entity Relationship

ERA European Research Area

ERIC European Research Infrastructure Consortium

ESA European Space Agency

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EU European Union

EUDAT European Data Infrastructure

F [Index]

F2F Face to Face

FaaS Federation as a Service

FAIR Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (data principles)

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

FEIDE Federated Electronic Identity for Education

FEUDAL Federated User Credential Deployment Portal

FIM4L Federated Identity Management for Libraries

FIM4R Federated Identity Management for Research

FP6 6th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development

FPA Framework Partnership Agreement

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name

G [Index]

GA General Assembly (GÉANT’s highest governing body)

GAP Grant Agreement Preparation

Gb Gigabit

Gb/s Gigabits per second

Gbps Gigabits per second

GCC GÉANT Community Committee

GDPR General Data Protection Regulation

GÉANT The pan-European research and education network interconnecting Europe’s NRENs

GeGC Global eduroam Governance Committee

GIdP GÉANT Identity Provider

GMT Greenwich Mean Time

GN2 GÉANT2

GN3 The GN3 Project (do not expand to GÉANT3!)

GN3plus The GN3plus Project (never GN3+)

GN4-1 The GN4 Phase 1 (GN4-1) project

GN4-2 The GN4 Phase 2 (GN4-2) project

GN4-3 (GÉANT Network 4 Phase 3), a project part-funded by the EC’s Horizon 2020 programme under the Specific Grant Agreement No. 856726

GN4-3N (GÉANT Network 4 Phase 3 Network), a project part-funded by the EC’s Horizon 2020 programme under the Specific Grant Agreement No. 856728

GOC GÉANT Operations Centre

GPL General Public Licence

GPPC GÉANT Programme Planning Committee

GRR GÉANT Risk Register

GSC GÉANT Software Catalogue

GUI Graphical User Interface

GWS GÉANT World Service

GXP Global R&E Exchange Point

H [Index]

H2020 Horizon 2020 (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation)

HA High Availability

HiSEEN High-Speed ESA Earth Observation Network

HO Home Organisation

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

I [Index]

I/f Interface

I/O Input/Output

IaaS Infrastructure as a Service

IAM Identity and Access Management

IdM Identity Management

IDM Inter-Domain Manager

IdP Identity Provider

ID-WSF Identity Web Services Federation

IMS Identity Management System

IoT Internet of Things

IP Internet Protocol

IPR Intellectual Property Rights

IPsec IP Security

IRT Incident Response Team

IRTF Internet Research Task Force

IRU Indefeasible Rights of Use

IS Intermediate System

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISP Internet Service Provider

IT Information Technology

ITIL (formerly) Information Technology Infrastructure Library

J [Index]

K [Index]

KB Knowledge Base

L [Index]

L&D Learning and Development

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LFA Local Federation Adaptor

LFC Local Federation Connector. See LFA.

M [Index]

MaaS Management as a Service

MD Multi-Domain

MD PCE Multi-Domain Path Computation Element

MDQ Metadata Query

MDS Metadata Service

MDS Multi-Domain Security

MFA Multi-Factor Authentication

MIB Management Information Base

MIdP Managed IdP

MS-IAS Microsoft Internet Authentication Service

N [Index]

NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement

NGI Next Generation Internet

NPAPW Network Performing Arts Production Workshop

NREN National Research and Education Network

NREN PC NREN Policy Committee

NRO National Roaming Operator

O [Index]

OA Open Access

OAM Operation, Administration and Maintenance

OCRE Open Clouds for Research Environments

OIDC OpenID Connect

OIDCre OpenID Connect for Research and Education Working Group

OJOU/OIDC OAuth2/JW/OIDC/UMA / OpenID Connect

OpenAIRE Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

OpenSAML Open Security Assertion Mark-up Language

OPS Operations

OSS Operations Support System

OT Operations Team

P [Index]

P Period

p2p Peer to peer

PAP Password Authentication Protocol

PC Programme Committee

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PLM Product Lifecycle Management

PoC Proof of Concept

Q [Index]

Q Quarter

QoS Quality of Service

R [Index]

R Report

R&D Research and Development

R&E Research and Education

R&S Research & Scholarship

RAF REFEDS Assurance Framework

RDA Research Data Alliance

REFEDS Research and Education FEDerations

REN Research and Education Network

S [Index]

SaaS Software as a Service

SAML Security Assertion Markup Language

SC Supervisory Committee

SC Steering Committee

SFA Single-Factor Authentication

Shibboleth An Internet2 project to investigate technology to support inter-institutional Authentication and Authorisation for access to (mainly) web content.

SI Service Inventory

SID Information Framework

SID Shared Information Data Model

SIG Special interest Group

SIG-CISS Special Interest Group – Cloudy Interoperable Software Stacks

SIG-ISM Special Interest Group – Information Security Management

SIG-Marcomms Special Interest Group – Marketing Communications

SIG-MSP Special Interest Group – Management of Service Portfolios

SIG-NGN Special Interest Group – Next-Generation Networks

SIG-NOC Special Interest Group – Network Operations Centres

SIG-PMV Special Interest Group – Performance Monitoring and Verification

SIG-SCOPE Special Interest Group – Sustainable, Community, Practice Exchange

SIG-TNE Special Interest Group – Transnational Education

SIRTFI Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity

SLA Service Level Agreement

SP Service Provider

SPOCP Simple POlicy Control Project

SSO Single sign-on

SSP Self-Service Portal

T [Index]

T Task

T&I Trust and Identity

tbc to be confirmed

Tbps Terabytes per second

TCS Trusted Certificate Service

TERENA Trans-European Research and Education Network Association

TF Task Force

TF-CSIRT Task-Force – Computer Security Incident Response Teams

TF-DPR Task Force – Data Protection Regulation

TF-ECS Task Force – Enhanced Communication Services

TF-MSP Task Force on Management of Service Portfolios

TF-RED Task Force – Research Engagement Development

TF-VSS Task Force - Videoconference Service Studies

TF-VVC Task Force - Voice and Video Collaboration

TI Trusted Introducer

TIM Trust and Identity Incubator Mentorship

TIME Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe

TMF TM Forum

TNC The Networking Conference (TNC16, TNC17, TNC18, TNC19) – the largest and most prestigious European research and education networking conference

TNE Transnational Education

ToR Terms of Reference

TRL Technology Readiness Level

U [Index]

UAS Universal Access and Service

UAT User Acceptance Testing

UI User Interface

UMA User Managed Access

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

URL Uniform Resource Locator

URN Uniform Resource Name

USM User Services Manager