1. Mohorovicic discontinuity-the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle; the Mohorovicic discontinuity averages 5 miles down under oceans and 20 miles down under continents.
PAR â Project Authorization Request An approved PAR is needed before official work is begun on a standard project. It serves as the work authorization by the IEEE-SA Standards Board. NesCom examines PARs and makes recommendations to the IEEE-SA Standards Board regarding their approval. An approved PAR is valid for 4 years. The PAR is referred to when the standard is submitted to RevCom for approval.
Point To Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE). The working standard for the PPPoE protocol was published by the IETF in 1999. The IETF specification for PPPoE is RFC 2516. PPPoE expands the original capability of PPP by allowing a virtual point to point connection over a multipoint Ethernet network architecture.