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From: jwb@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
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Subject: ISO's Meaning (was: NSFNet etc.)
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In article <14658@accuvax.nwu.edu>, oberman@rogue.llnl.gov writes:

> Reasonably accurate except that the name of the body is "The
> Organization for International Standardization", at least in English.
> The name "ISO" was selected because it "looks right" in a lot of
> languages without being an actual acronym for the name of the body in
> any language, thus avoiding offending either anglophiles or
> francophiles.

Reasonably accurate, except that it's "International Organization for
Standardization". I'm quoting from my copy of ISO 8802-2, which on my
desk right in front of me. The name appears about five times on the
first three pages.


 Jim Breen ($B?@Ip(J) (jwb@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au) 
Dept of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University
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