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Article #167Re: ANSI and NIST
From: Erik Naggum
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 16:32
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 16:32
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Matt Caprile <mfc@medoc.aux.apple.com> writes:
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| ANSI does develop standards. It is the U.S. national representative to
| I.S.O. (International Standards Organization). As such it participates
| in developing I.S.O. standards.
Just a very minor correction. "ISO" is not an abbreviation, and it
doesn't stand for "International Standards Organization". It's sort of
an acronym, but it also comes from Greek, where it's a prefix which
means "same". The full name of ISO is "the International Organization
for Standardization". "ISO" is never used with interspersed periods.
Best regards,
</Erik>
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