Glossary for Grid/Globus

GSI = Grid Security Infrastructure
GRAM = Globus Resource Allocation Manager
RSL = Resource Specification Language
MDS = Metacomputing Directory Service
      Monitoring and Discovery Service
LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
GRIS = Grid Resource Information Service
GIIS = Grid Index Information Service
GPT = Grid Packaging Technology
GASS = Global Access to Secondary Storage
VO = Virtual Organization
GRRP = Grid Resource Registration Protocol
GTPL = Globus Toolkit Public License
SSL = Secure Sockets Layer
TLS = Transport Layer Security
IETF = Internet Engineering Task Force
CAS = Community Authorization Service