CARP: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

CARP can mean:

• the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles
• the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel of the U.S. Library of Congress
• the Companion Animal Recovery Program, using implanted RFID chips to identify lost pets
• the Common Address Redundancy Protocol, used by the OpenBSD operating system to "allow multiple machines to share responsibility for a given IP address or addresses".