| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| ASC | Accredited Standards Committee |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| BGM | Beginning of Message Segment |
| BSU | Basic Semantic Unit |
| CALS | Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistic Support |
| CEFACT | Center for Facilitation of practices and procedures for Administration, Commerce and Transport |
| CCR | Central Contractor Registry |
| CEN | European Committee for Standardization |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| DCD | Document Content Description |
| DISA | Data Interchange Standards Association |
| DND | Department of National Defense |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DSSSL | Document Style Semantics and Specification Language |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DTM | Date/Time |
| EBES | European Board for EDIFACT Standardization |
| EBNF | Extended Backus-Naur Form |
| EC | Electronic Commerce |
| ECE | Electronic Commerce Europe |
| EDCD | EDIFACT Composite Data Element Directory |
| EDCL | EDIFACT Code List |
| EDED | EDIFACT Data Elements Directory |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDIFACT | Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport |
| EDMD | EDIFACT Message Directory |
| EDSD | EDIFACT Segments Directory |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FOSI | Formatted Output Specification Interface |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GCARI | Graphic Communications Association Research Institute |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| IDE | Integrated Data Environment |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IIOP | Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISSS | Information Society Standardization System |
| MDG | Message Design Guidelines |
| NAD | Name and Address |
| QL | Query Language |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| RDT&E | Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation |
| RFF | Reference Segment |
| RFQ | Request for Quote |
| SIG | Syntax Implementation Guidelines |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SME | Small or Medium Enterprises |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TEI | Text Encoding Initiative |
| TP | Trading Partners |
| TPA | Trading Partner Agreement |
| UCS | Universal Character Set |
| UDEF | Universal Data Element Framework |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNCID | Uniform rules of Conduct for the Interchange of trade Data by teletransmission |
| UNSM | United Nations Standard Message |
| UNTDED | United Nations Trade Data Element Dictionary |
| UNTDID | United Nations Trade Data Interchange Directory |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| UTF | UCS Transformation Format |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WP.4 | Working Party on Facilitation of International Trade Procedures |
| WIDL | Web Interface Definition Language |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| VAN | Value Added Network |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| XLINK | XML Linking Language |
| XLL | Extensible Linking Language |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
