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From: edwards@houxa.UUCP (D.LEWAN)
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Subject: Re: What is "ISO"?
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Date: Wed, 7-May-86 13:08:03 EDT
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Keywords: ISO question

ISO stands for either the

	"International Organization for Standardization"

or the

	"Organisation International de Normalisation"

or the Russian name (which does not reproduce well here).

At the very least "ISO" is an acronym of political compromise;
none of the above three names reduces by common procedures to it
and it should therefore not appear to give preference to any of
English, French or Russian, the three official languages of ISO.

Doug Lewan