| 6LoWPAN | IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks |
| AAT | Authorization API Token |
| ABAC | Attribute-Based Access Control |
| ACLs | Access Control Lists |
| ACM | Access Control Matrix |
| AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| AS | Authorization Server |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
| CapBAC | Capability-Based Access Control |
| CoAP | Constrained Application Protocol |
| CoRE | Constrained RESTful Environments |
| DDS | Data Distribution Service |
| DNS-SD | Domain Name System Service Discovery |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IETF | The Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 |
| M2M | Machine to Machine |
| mDNS | multicast Domain Name System |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport |
| OAuth | Open Authorization |
| OrBAC | Organizational-Based Access Control |
| PAT | Protection API Token |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
| REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
| RO | Resource Owner |
| RP | Requesting Party |
| RPL | IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks |
| RPT | Requesting Party Token |
| RS | Resource Set |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| TLS | Transportation Layer Security |
| UCON | Usage Control |
| UMA | User-Managed Access |
| UTF-8 | 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| XACML | Extensible Access Control Markup Language |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol |