Re: ISO9000 new version (fwd)

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From: Daniel Ritsma
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 05:05

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Taken from ISO Bulletin.

People often ask why there is a seeming lack of correspondence
between our official title when used in full, International Organization for
Standardization, and the short form, ISO, Shouldn't the acronym be "IOS"?
Yes, if it were an acronym-which it is not.

In fact, "ISO" is a word, derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal, which
is the root of the prefix "iso-" that occurs in a host of terms, such as
"isometic" (of equal measure or dimensions - Shorter Oxford English Dictionary)
and "isonomy" (equality of laws, or of people before the law-ibid).

>From "equal" via "uniform" to "standard", the conceptual path followed in
selecting "ISO" as the name of the organization is easy to follow.

In addition, the name has the advantage of being valid in each of the
organizations's three official languages-English, French, and Russian. The
confusion that would arise through the use of an acronym is thus avoided,
e.g., "IOS" would not correspond to the official title of the organization
in French-Organisation internationale de normalisation"

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