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RA - Registration Authority

An RA (Registration Authority) may be used in PKE (Public Key Encryption) to support the distribution and management of keys and tokens along with other responsibilities such as certificate revocation reporting.

RAID - Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks

RB - Request (or Resource) Broker

RC - Replica Catalog, maps a LFN to >=1 PFNs

RDBMS - Relation Database Management System

RDF - Resource Description Framework

RDN - Relative Distinghished Name (X.500, LDAP)

ReDReSS - Resource Discovery for Researchers in e-Social Science (Lanacaster)

RENATER - Réseau National de Télécommunications pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche

RFIO - Remote File I/O

RFS - Internet Requests For Comments

R-GMA - Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (EU Data Grid WP3)

RLI - Replica Location Index

RLS - Replical Location Service (EDG WP2)

RM - Replica Manager

RMS - Resource Management System (local to a CE)

RPC - Remote Procedure Call

RPM - Red Hat Package Manager (Linux)

RSA - Rivest Shamir & Adleman

RSA describes a public key encryption algorithm and certification process to protect user data over networks. The system was designed by Ron Rivest, AdiShamir, and Leonard Adleman who formed RSA Security Inc. The patent for the RSA process expired in September 2000 and now is available for general use.

RSL - Resource Specification Language (Globus)

RTML - Robot Telescope Markup Language

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Acknowledgments:

Some original material is from the GridPP Web site maintained by Joe Foster, University of Manchester. Additions by Rob Allan, Dharmesh Chohan, Adrian Fish and Audrienne Cutajar Bezzina.

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