\newglossaryentry{api} { name={API}, description={An Application Programming Interface (API) is a particular set of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software program that implements that API.} } \newglossaryentry{rir} { name={Regional Internet Registry}, description={A Regional Internet Registry is an organization responsible for assigning regional internet resources, e.g. IP address blocks and ASNs} } \newglossaryentry{lir} { name={Local Internet Registry}, description={A Local Internet Registry is an organization responsible for one or more blocks of IP addresses and ASNs for mostly consumers and small companies, e.g. an Internet Service Provider} } \newglossaryentry{ddos} { name={Distributed Denial-of-Service}, description={Distributed Denial-of-Service is an attack where multiple machines are used to generate as much workload as needed to cause downtimes of a service or machine and make benign usage impossible.} } \newglossaryentry{as} { name={AS}, description={An Autonomous System references a set of one or more networks in the Internet that allows to consistently route between those networks (i.e. an Internet Service Provider) and that exports a single interface for other AS. Each Autonomous System is assigned a officially registered unique Autonomous System Number (ASN).} } \newglossaryentry{bgp} { name={BGP}, description={The Border Gateway Protocol, also known as the Exterior-Gateway-Protocol (EGP), is a protocol to route traffic between different Autonomous Systems in the Internet. It is used to share several information for IP blocks to allow routing between different Autonomous Systems.} } \newglossaryentry{whois} { name={Whois}, description={Whois is a protocol used to gather information about owners of domains in the domain name system and IP addresses specified in RFC 1834.} } \newglossaryentry{roc} { name={Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve}, description={The ROC curve is a graphical plot of the true positive rate as well as the false positive rate and highlights the performance of a binary classifier.} } \newacronym{sri-nic}{SRI-NIC}{Stanford Research Institute - Network Information Center} \newacronym{dns}{DNS}{Domain Name System} \newacronym{ipv6}{IPv6}{Internet Protocol Version 6} \newacronym{arpanet}{ARPANET}{Advanced Research Projects Agency Network} \newacronym{tcp/ip}{TCP/IP}{Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol} \newacronym{udp}{UDP}{User Datagram Protocol} \newacronym{tcp}{TCP}{Transmission Control Protocol} \newacronym{pdns}{pDNS}{passive DNS} \newacronym{os}{OS}{Operating System} \newacronym{ftp}{FTP}{File Transfer Protocol} \newacronym{fqdn}{FQDN}{Fully Qualified Domain Name} \newacronym{dnssec}{DNSSEC}{Domain Name System Security Extensions} \newacronym{edns}{EDNS}{Extension mechanisms for DNS}