The Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Note 1: ITU-T is responsible for studying technical, operating, and tariff Questions and issuing Recommendations on them, with the goal of standardizing telecommunications worldwide.
Note 2: In principle, the ITU-T combines the standards-setting activities of the predecessor organizations formerly called the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT) and the… (Read More →)

An alphabet in which (a) 128 unique 7-bit strings are used to encode upper- and lower-case letters, 10 decimal numerals, special signs and symbols, diacritical marks, data delimiters, and transmission control characters, (b) 12 of the 7-bit strings are not assigned to any letter, numeral, or control character, and (c) the unassigned bit strings are open for use in a… (Read More →)

See ITU-T.

See International Atomic Time.

The process of designing and developing a product with a set of features, functions, and options intended to facilitate the adaption of the product to satisfy a variety of cultural environments [POSIX.0].

Slang term for a user of the Internet. Synonym cybernaut.

Any interconnection among or between private, industrial or governmental computer (digital communication) networks.
Note: The term internet (spelled with a lower case "i") is distinguished from the Internet (spelled with the "I" capitalized). "The Internet" refers to a specific, historic, ubiquitous worldwide digital communications network. See Internet [the].

In The Internet protocol, the decimal-numeric, fixed-length address that identifies the hosts of data sources, and, specifically, a communication port.
Note: A single Internet address can have multiple URLs. Synonyms IP address, Internet protocol address.

Synonym thin client.

The technical body that oversees the development of the Internet suite of protocols (commonly referred to as "TCP/IP"), and that has two task forces (the Internet Research Task Force and the Internet Engineering Task Force), each charged with investigating a particular field.