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Article #1177Re: what does ISO stand for?
From: Bob Devine
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 18:58
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 18:58
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> Phil Ngai sez: > A lot of people go around saying that ISO stands for International > Standards Organization. Even Tannenbaum in _Computer Networks_. > > Well, it's not true. As sources, I cite the 802.3 standard's foreword > and also John McNamara's _Local Area Networks_. They both define ISO > as the International Organization for Standardization. No, it's not an > acronym. An international body such as ISO can not afford to appear to > favor any one language, even in the tiniest way. So they carefully > chose ISO and names in different languages which did not have ISO as > an acronym. Correct. To illustrate further, the French name for ISO is Organization International de Normalization. Bob Devine
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!hao!nbires!vianet!devine From: devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: what does ISO stand for? Message-ID: <38@vianet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 14:58:59 EDT Article-I.D.: vianet.38 Posted: Thu Oct 2 14:58:59 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 10:18:00 EDT References: <13196@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: ViaNetix, Inc., Boulder, CO Lines: 16