Glossary
- CA: Certificate Authority
- CTA: CERN Tape Archive - future tape backend for EOS
- DAV: Distributed Authoring and Versioning (also, WebDAV)
- dCache: Storage Element
- DCAP: dCache access protocol client library
- DPM: Storage Element (Disk Pool Manager)
- EOS: Storage Element built on top of the XRootD framework
- EPEL: Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
- HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- GFAL2: Grid File Abstraction Layer 2
- GSIFTP: Extension of the File Transfer Protocol
- GridFTP: Extension of the File Transfer Protocol
- LHC: Large Hadron Collider
- LFC: LCG File Catalog
- OSG: Open Science Grid
- Proxy: A X509 certificate signed by another proxy or by the user End Entity Certificate. (As opposed by a "regular" X509 certificate, which is signed by a Certificate authority)
- RFIO: Remote File I/O
- RHEL: RedHat Enterprise Linux
- S3: Amazon Simple Storage service
- SRM: Storage Resource Manager
- STORM: Storage Element (STOrage Resource Manager)
- VO: Virtual Organization
- VOMS: Virtual Organization Membership System
- WebDAV: Distributed Authoring and Versioning (also, DAV)
- X509: Standard that defines the format of public key certificates.
- XRootD: XRootD framework for data repositories, and, by inclusion, its native
protocol.