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From: devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine)
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Subject: Re: what does ISO stand for?
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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