Glossary
For a glossary of all terms used within the GÉANT Project download the 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
uSSO unified Single Sign-On
UTC Universal Time Co-ordinated
V [Index]
VAaaS Vulnerability Assessment as a Service
VO Virtual Organisation (eIRG)
VOMS Virtual Organisation Membership Service
VOPaaS VO Platform as a Service
W [Index]
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WebSSO Web Single Sign-On
WG Working Group
WISE Wise Information Security for Collaborating e-Infrastructures
X [Index]
XML Extensible Markup Language
Y [Index]
Y Year
YoY Year on Year
Z [Index]