Federal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. This document provides federal departments and agencies a comprehensive source of definitions of terms used in telecommunications and directly related fields by international and U.S. government telecommunications specialists. As a publication of the U.S. government, prepared by an agency of the U.S. government, it appears to be mostly available as a public domain resource, but a few items are derived from copyrighted sources: where this is the case, there is an attribution to the source. This standard was superseded in 2001 by American National Standard T1.523-2001, Telecom Glossary 2000, which is published by ATIS. The old standard is still frequently used, because the new standard is protected by copyright, as usual for ANSI standards. A newer proposed standard is the "ATIS Telecom Glossary 2011", ATIS-0100523.2011. See also Automatic message exchange Bilateral synchronization Decrypt List of telecommunications encryption terms List of telecommunications terminology Net operation Online and offline References External links ATIS Telecom Glossary 2000 T1.523-2001 (successor) Download of the standard Development Site for proposed Revisions to American National Standard T1.523-2001 Glossaries Publications of the United States government Reference works in the public domain Telecommunications standards