Attach 19.doc

Attachment 19, Section J

NDR Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

AAMVA

American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

AAMVAnet™ A subsidiary of AAMVA. It is the network providing Value Added Networking (VAN) services to motor vehicle agencies all over United States for PDPS, CDLIS, other government and private sector applications. The network is operated by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA).

ACD

AAMVA Code Dictionary. This is a set of three-character codes that identify types of traffic related convictions and reasons for license withdrawals. DMVs use the ACD codes to exchange conviction and withdrawal information with the PDPS.

ADP

Automated data processing

AMIE

AAMVAnet™ Message Interchange Envelope. The format of messages that are exchanged between States and NDR and between two States.

APPC

Advanced Program-to-Program Communications, a telecommunications network architecture allowing peer-to-peer communications among IBM systems. APPC uses Logical Unit 6.2.

ARIN

American Registry for Internet Numbers

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The standard specifies the correspondence between 128 graphic and control symbols to a 7-bit code.

Broken Pointer A pointer exists on the NDR but the State of Record is not able to locate the record in their files for the pointer.

CDLIS

Commercial Driver’s License Information System

CO

Contracting Officer

Conviction

Guilty in Court, Court imposed sanction referred to DMV

COTR

Contracting Officer's Technical Representative

Delayed Search The Delayed Search is a batch process that is performed at periodic intervals on previously received inquiries to determine if an individual for whom the inquiry was received has been designated as a problem driver after the original search was run.

DHS

Driver History Summary

DLA

Driver License Abstract

DMV

A State’s Department of Motor Vehicles – State agency responsible for the issuance of motor vehicle licenses.

DOT

United States Department of Transportation

DR

Disaster Recovery

Driver History A State of Record's information pertaining to an individual's driving history.

E.T.

Eastern Time, either Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Daylight Time, whichever is applicable.

FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

FHWA

Federal Highway Administration. An agency within the US Department of Transportation.

FMCSA

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Formerly the Office of Motor Carriers (OMC) within FHWA.

FY

Fiscal Year, 12-month accounting period (October - September).

History Request A request for an individual's driver history information.

Hits and No-Hits A hit occurs when there is at least one pointer on the NDR file with a name and date of birth similar to that submitted on the inquiry. Hits are called "probable identifications" or "matches." They require further review by the State to verify that the inquiry and the pointer refer to the same individual. Inquiries may match more than one pointer.

A No-Hit occurs when there is no pointer record on the file with a similar name and date of birth to that submitted on the inquiry.

Inquiry (Batch or Interactive) A request for pointer information

Jurisdiction Any of the 50 states of the United States or the District of Columbia

LAN

Local-area network

MPLS

Multiprotocol Label Switching – Helps enable enterprises and service providers to build intelligent networks that deliver scalable, end-to-end services

Name Search Algorithm Logic which results in probable identification or match as a result of comparing the Inquiry data (primary search factors: Name and Date of Birth) with the data on NDR's master file

NCS

The Network Control Software - software operated and maintained by AAMVA, which routes communication / messages from/to NDR to their proper destination

NCSA

National Center for Statistics Analysis. A unit within NHTSA.

NDR

National Driver Register, a NHTSA program.

NHTSA

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. An agency within US Department of Transportation.

OAU

Other Authorized Users. Entities, besides States / Jurisdictions which have access to information on PDPS.

OS

Operating System

OTRA

Office of Traffic Records and Analysis. An office within NCSA.

PDPS

Problem Driver Pointer System; an NDR application.

P.L. 86-660 Public Law 86-660

Revocation The driving privilege is terminated. The driver must apply for reinstatement and may be required to re-take tests, file new insurance, etc.

RFP

Request for Proposal

SP

System Product

SOI

State of Inquiry - A jurisdiction that sends an inquiry to the PDPS Central Site or to another jurisdiction to inquire about a driver's record becomes the State of Inquiry (SOI) for that transaction. The SOI has the responsibility of properly initiating PDPS inquiry transactions, examining responses returned from the SOR(s), and for using that information in jurisdictional licensing decisions.

SOR

State of Record - A jurisdiction becomes the State of Record (SOR) for each problem driver it reports to the NDR. Within PDPS, it is now the SOR's (not the NDR's) responsibility to maintain the substantive information about specific action(s) taken against an individual, to provide the identifying pointer record information to the PDPS Central Site, to respond to on-line requests with status and history records for individuals who have pointers at the PDPS Central Site, and to provide driver history information in response to request from states or other authorized users.

Status Request & Status Response When a probable identification is found, PDPS electronically sends a message to the State of Record asking them to send the driver license status (i.e., licensed, eligible to be licensed, or not eligible) to the State of inquiry. The state of record sends the status directly to the State of inquiry in the status response.

Suspension Temporary withdrawal of the driving privilege. Privilege is no longer valid, but if privilege is reinstated, there is no break in Driver History. The Driver History continues from where it was left off.

Update A transaction that adds, changes, or deletes pointer Information. Only SORs can do Updates

UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply

USCG

United States Coast Guard

Verizon

The AAMVAnet™ service provider.

VPE

Vendor Premises Equipment

ZX, ZY

State code for pseudo-States used with PDPS Help Desk functions.

ZZ

Code for NDR.