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\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}
}
\newglossaryentry{dnssec}
{
name={DNSSEC},
description={Domain Name System Security Extensions: Series of extensions to the Domain Name System that enable integrity and authenticity of data that is distributed via DNS}
}