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Appendix D - Glossary
X.500
A standard of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International
Telecommunications Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), for
systematically collecting the names of people in an organization into an electronic directory
that can be part of a global directory available to anyone in the world with Internet access.
X.509
An International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector
(ITU-T) Recommendation and the most widely used standard for dening digital certicates.
XML
Extensible Markup Language. A simpler and easier-to-use subset of the Standard Generalized
Markup Language (SGML), with unlimited, self-dening markup symbols (tags). Developed
by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the XML specication provides a exible way to
create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the Internet,
intranets, and elsewhere. Designers can create their own customized tags to dene, transmit,
validate, and interpret data between applications and between organizations.