Abbreviations ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network CUECIC Convention on the use of Electronic Communication in International Contracts E-COMMERCE Electronic Commerce ECT Act Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 EDI Electronic Data Interchange E2E end-to-end ITU International Telecommunications Union SMS Short Message Service TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol UNCITRAL United Nations Commission for International Trade Law URL Uniform Resource Locator VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol WWW World Wide Web vi