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ACL

Definitions:

  A mechanism that implements access control for a system resource by enumerating the identities of the system entities that are permitted to access the resources.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-82 Rev. 2 under Access Control List from RFC 4949

  A list of entities, together with their access rights, that are authorized to have access to a resource.
Sources:
NISTIR 5153 under Access Control List from ISO DIS 10181-2