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# Glossary #
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FCS
: Final Checksum. Bytes added to the end of a packet to help determine if the packet was received without corruption.
NCP
: Network Control Processor.
NLI
: Network Link Identifier. May be a value between zero and three. See (#nli-network-link-identifier) for more information.
OS
: Operating System, i.e. the IPv6 node using Spinel to control and manage one or more of its IPv6 network interfaces.
PHY
: Physical layer. Refers to characteristics and parameters related to the physical implementation and operation of a networking medium.
PUI
: Packed Unsigned Integer. A way to serialize an unsigned integer using one, two, or three bytes. Used throughout the Spinel protocol. See (#packed-unsigned-integer) for more information.
TID
: Transaction Identifier. May be a value between zero and fifteen. See (#tid-transaction-identifier) for more information.