| A2A | Application-to-Application |
| AD | Area Director |
| AFDEC | Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| AOG | Architecture Oversight Group |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| ASC X12 | Accredited Standards Committee |
| ASCII | American Standards Code for Information Interchange |
| ATP | Advanced Technology Program |
| B2B | Business-to-Business |
| BAPI | Business API |
| BASDA | Business and Accounting Software Developers Association |
| BDA | Business Data Area |
| BOD | Business Object Document |
| BSR | Business Service Request |
| BSU | Basic Semantic Unit |
| CALS | Continuous Acquisition & Life-cycle Support |
| CD ROM | Compact Disc Read Only Memory |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CERN | European Laboratory for Particle Physics |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer |
| COE | Common Operating Environment |
| COI | Community of Interest |
| CONOPS | Concept of Operations |
| COTS | Commercial Off-the-Shelf |
| CTC | Concurrent Technologies Corporation |
| CWMI | Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange |
| cXML | commerce XML |
| DARPA | United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency |
| DCD | Document Content Definition |
| DED | Data Element Dictionary |
| DII COE | Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment |
| DISA | Data Interchange Standards Association |
| DISA | Defense Information Systems Agency |
| DLMSO | Defense Logistics Management Standards Office |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DRID | Department of Defense Reform Initiative Directive |
| DSSSL | Document Style Semantics and Specification Language |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DUNS | Data Universal Numbering System |
| ebXML | electronic business XML |
| EC | Electronic Commerce |
| ECOSOC | Economic and Social Council |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDIA | Electronic Data Interchange Association |
| EDIINT | EDI-Internet Integration |
| EDISMC | Electronic Data Interchange Standards Management Committee |
| EIDX | Electronics Industry Data Exchange |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| EWG | EDIFACT Working Group |
| FIXML | Financial Information eXchange Markup Language |
| FO | Formatting Object |
| FpML | Financial Products Markup Language |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GCA | Graphic Communications Association |
| GCCS | Global Command Control System |
| GENCOD | EAN - Article Numbering Association (France) - European Article Number |
| GSA | General Services Administration |
| GTDI | Guidelines for Trade Data Interchange |
| GTIN | Global Trade Item Number |
| HL7 | Health Level Seven |
| HR-XML | Human Resources XML |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HyTIME | Hypermedia Time-based Structuring Language |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IAB | Internet Architecture Board |
| IC | Implementation Convention |
| ID | Identification |
| IDEF | Integration Definition |
| IESG | Internet Engineering Steering Group |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IETM | Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals |
| INRIA | The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISOC | Internet Society |
| ISV | Independent Software Vendor |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITAA | International Transactional Analysis Association |
| JDBC | Java Data Base Connectivity |
| JIPDEC | Japan Information Processing Development Corporation |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LCS | Laboratory for Computer Science |
| LLC | Limited Liability Corporation |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MIT LCS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lab for Computer Science |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NEDA | National Electronics Distributors Association |
| NEMI | National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| OAGI | Open Applications Group, Inc. |
| OAGIS | Open Applications Group Integration Specification |
| OAMAS | Open Applications Group Common Middleware API Specification |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OBI | Open Buying Initiative |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnect |
| OTA | Open Travel Alliance |
| OTP | Open Trading Protocol |
| PAEB | Pan American EDIFACT Board |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PIP | Partner Interface Process |
| QOS | Quality of Service |
| QTR | Quarter |
| RDF | Resource Description Format |
| REDX | Retail Enterprise Data in XML |
| RFC | Request for Comment |
| S.W.I.F.T. | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications |
| AICS | Science Applications International Corporation |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SIIA | Software and Information Industry Association |
| SIMPL-EDI | Simplified subset UN/EDIFACT EDI Message Standard |
| SITG | Strategic Implementation Task Group |
| SKU | Stock Keeping Unit |
| SME | Small-to-Medium sized Enterprise |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOX | Schema for Object-oriented XML |
| SSD-MD | Semi-Structured Data and Meta Data |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| TBD | To Be Determined |
| TDCC | Transportation Data Coordination Committee |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TMWG | Techniques and Methodologies Working Group |
| TPA | Trading Partner Agreement |
| TTI | Technology Transfer Institute |
| UCS | Universal Character Set |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| UN | United Nations |
| UN/CEFACT | United Nations Centre for Facilitation of Procedures and Practices for Administration, Commerce and Transport |
| UN/ECE | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
| UN/EDIFACT | United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport |
| UN-JEDI | United Nations Joint EDI |
| UNSM | United Nations Standard Message |
| UNSPSC | UN: Standard Products and Services Code |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USMTF | United States Message Text Format |
| UTF | UCS Transformation Format |
| VAN | Value-Added Network |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WFMC | Work Flow Management Consortium |
| WIDL | Web Interface Definition Language |
| Windows DNA | Windows Distributed InterNet Applications Architecture |
| WP | Working Party |
| xCBL | eXtensible Common Business Library |
| XDR | XML-data Reduced |
| XHTML | Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language |
| Xlink | XML Linking Language |
| XLL | eXtensible Linking Language |
| XMI | XML Metadata Interchange |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XML RPC | XML Remote Procedure Call |
| XPath | XML Path Language |
| XPointer | XML Pointer Language |
| XSDL | XML Schema Definition Language |
| XSL | eXtensible Style Language |
| XSLT | eXtensible Style Language Transformation |
