Table Of Contents

Glossary

A
ACL	Access Control List. A list of permissions attached to an object.

B
BLOB	Binary Large Object. A collection of unstructured binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system.

E
EFT	Engineering Field Trial.

H
HTTPS	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. A URL scheme which is syntactically identical to the HTTP scheme normally used for accessing resources using HTTP. Using an HTTPS: URL indicates that HTTP is to be used, but with a different default port (443) and an additional encryption/authentication layer between HTTP and TCP.

J
JDBC	JAVA Database Connectivity. An API for the JAVA programming language that defines how a client may access a database. It provides methods for querying and updating data in a database.

M
MAC address	Media Access Control address. A quasi-unique identifier assigned by the manufacturer to most network adapters or network interface cards for identification.

N
NAP	Network Access Profile.

P
PI	Programmatic Interface. A mechanism for external applications to interact with ACS.
POC	Proof of concept.

S
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol. A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP. SOAP forms the foundation layer of the Web services stack.

V
VSA	Vendor Specific Attribute. A proprietary property or characteristic not provided by the standard RADIUS attribute set. VSAs are defined by vendors of remote access servers to customize RADIUS for their servers.

W
WSDL	Web Services Description Language. An XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services.

X
XML	Extensible Markup Language.