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E1

The basic building block for European multi-megabit data rates, with a bandwidth of 2.048Mbps. See also: T1. [Source: RFC1983]

E3

A European standard for transmitting data at 57.344Mbps. See also: T3. [Source: RFC1983]

EARN

European Academic and Research Network. See: Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association. [Source: RFC1983]

EaStMAN

Edinburgh and Stirling Metropolitan Area Network.

EastNet

East of England Regional Network.

EBCDIC

See: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

Ebone

A pan-European backbone service. [Source: RFC1392]

EFF

See: Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFLA

See: Extended Four Letter Acronym

EGP

See: Exterior Gateway Protocol

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

A foundation established to address social and legal issues arising from the impact on society of the increasingly pervasive use of computers as a means of communication and information distribution. [Source: RFC1392]

Electronic Mail (email)

A system whereby a computer user can exchange messages with other computer users (or groups of users) via a communications network. Electronic mail is one of the most popular uses of the Internet. [Source: NNSC]

email

See: Electronic mail

email address

The domain-based or UUCP address that is used to send electronic mail to a specified destination. For example an editor's address is "[email protected]". See also: bang path, mail path, UNIX- to-UNIX CoPy. [Source: ZEN]

EMMAN

East Midlands Metropolitan Area Network.

encapsulation

The technique used by layered protocols in which a layer adds header information to the protocol data unit (PDU) from the layer above. As an example, in Internet terminology, a packet would contain a header from the physical layer, followed by a header from the datalink layer (e.g. Ethernet), followed by a header from the network layer (IP), followed by a header from the transport layer (TCP), followed by the application protocol data. [Source: RFC1208]

encryption

Encryption is the manipulation of a packet's data in order to prevent any but the intended recipient from reading that data. There are many types of data encryption, and they are the basis of network security. See also: Data Encryption Standard. [Source: RFC1392]

end system

An OSI system which contains application processes capable of communicating through all seven layers of OSI protocols. Equivalent to Internet host. [Source: RFC1208]

entity

OSI terminology for a layer protocol machine. An entity within a layer performs the functions of the layer within a single computer system, accessing the layer entity below and providing services to the layer entity above at local service access points. [Source: RFC1208]

error checking

The examination of received data for transmission errors. See also: checksum, Cyclic Redundancy Check. [Source: RFC1983]

ES-IS

End system to Intermediate system protocol. The OSI protocol by which end systems announce themselves to intermediate systems. [Source: RFC1208]

ESMTP

Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. See Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

Ethernet

A 10-Mb/s standard for LANs, initially developed by Xerox, and later refined by Digital, Intel and Xerox (DIX). All hosts are connected to a coaxial cable where they contend for network access using a Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) paradigm. See also: 802.x, Local Area Network, token ring. [Source: RFC1392]

Ethernet meltdown

An event that causes saturation, or near saturation, on an Ethernet. It usually results from illegal or misrouted packets and typically lasts only a short time. See also: broadcast storm. [Source: COMER]

ETSI

See: European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EUNet

European UNIX Network, an Internet Service Provider. [Source: RFC1208]

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

A pan-European organisation of administrations, network operators, manufacturers, service providers, research bodies and users. ETSI develops standards and tecnical documentation in telecommunications, broadcasting and information technology.

EUUG

European UNIX Users Group. [Source: RFC1208]

European Academic and Research Network (EARN)

European Academic and Research Network. See: Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association. [Source: RFC1983]

EWOS

European Workshop for Open Systems. The OSI Implementors Workshop for Europe. See OIW. [Source: RFC1208]

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC)

A standard character-to-number encoding used primarily by IBM computer systems. See also: ASCII. [Source: RFC1392]

Extendable Markup Language (XML)

A subset of Standardised General Markup Language, for development of markup applications using Document Type Definitions (DTDs) in areas such as database searches and information interchange, in electronic business transactions and eleswhere.

Extended Four Letter Acronym (EFLA)

A recognition of the fact that there are far too many TLAs. See also: Three Letter Acronym. [Source: K. Morgan]

Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)

A protocol which distributes routing information to the routers which connect autonomous systems. The term "gateway" is historical, as "router" is currently the preferred term. There is also a routing protocol called EGP defined in STD 18, RFC 904. See also: Autonomous System, Border Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol. [Source: RFC1392]

eXternal Data Representation (XDR)

A standard for machine independent data structures developed by Sun Microsystems and defined in RFC 1014. It is similar to ASN.1. See also: Abstract Syntax Notation One. [Source: RFC1208]

 

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