Acronyms and Abbreviations:

BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture
DII: Dynamic Invocation Interface
DSI: Dynamic Skeleton Interface
GIOP: Generic Inter-ORB Protocol
IDL: Interface Description Language
IIOP: Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
OMG: Object Management Group
ONC-RPC: Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call
ORB: Object Request Broker
RPC: Remote Procedure Call