UUU

Universal Description Discovery and Integration. An industry initiative that enables businesses to easily and efficiently conduct eCommerce. See http://www.uddi.org/.

User Datagram Protocol. A transport protocol in the Internet suite of protocols. UDP, like TCP, uses IP for delivery; however, unlike TCP, UDP provides for exchange of datagrams without acknowledgement or guaranteed delivery.

UDP. A transport protocol in the Internet suite of protocols. UDP, like TCP, uses IP for delivery; however, unlike TCP, UDP provides for exchange of datagrams without acknowledgement or guaranteed delivery.

A fixed-width 16-bit code, defined by the Unicode Consortium, that supports up to 65,536 unique combinations. Each combination forms a character. Unicode allows mathematics, technical, graphical, and publishing symbols, punctuation marks, as well as the characters from written languages to be represented, each by a single 16-bit character.

URL. A generalization of the file naming concepts already in common use on the Internet. A URL extends the filename and pathname used to refer to files on a computer by adding an Internet address and protocol component. A URL specifies the computer and access method (protocol) in addition to the filename and thus can be used to refer to files anywhere on a network.

While URLs are used in various forms by different systems, they are most closely associated with the World Wide Web.

UDDI. An industry initiative that enables businesses to easily and efficiently conduct eCommerce. See http://www.uddi.org/.

uniform resource locator. A generalization of the file naming concepts already in common use on the Internet. A URL extends the filename and pathname used to refer to files on a computer by adding an Internet address and protocol component. A URL specifies the computer and access method (protocol) in addition to the filename and thus can be used to refer to files anywhere on a network.

While URLs are used in various forms by different systems, they are most closely associated with the World Wide Web.

A name recognized by the network that represents a user.