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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 394.1 | ISOOSI ? | CHIC::BELL | David Bell Service Technology @VBO | Tue Aug 11 1987 12:01 | 12 |
| But I was always under the impression that it was the
International Standards Organization
that is, an organisation for setting standards to be used internationally,
rather than an international organisation for setting standards.
If it was in French we would have had
Organisation des Standards Internationaux
which would, of course, give us the OSI-OSI model.
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| 394.2 | you must mean the OSI-ISO model, no? | ANGORA::ZARLENGA | Living on the edge ... | Tue Aug 11 1987 12:27 | 0 |
| 394.3 | IOS - official | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Pour encourager les auteurs | Wed Aug 12 1987 09:16 | 12 |
| Re: .1
On their documents (which have numbers that all have the prefix
ISO) they call themselves
International Organization for Standardization
Organisation Internationale de Normalisation
<and something in Cyrillic script>
The initials aren't in the right order. Any ideas?
b
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| 394.4 | Well wad'ye know! | IPG::PARROTT | | Wed Aug 12 1987 10:46 | 35 |
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This may explain? Quoted without permission from a Sperry booklet
called "The World of EDP Standards".
"In 1926 about 20 of the world's principal standards bodies organised
a meeting in New York and decided to band together as the International
Federation of the National Standardizing Associations (ISA). ...
When the war ended, 25 countries sent 64 delegates to a meeting
in London on October 14, 1946 to consider the establishment of a
new international organisation 'whose object shall be to facilitate
the international coordination and unification of industrial
standards'. The discussions of these delegates resulted in the
establishment of ISO whose provisional General Assembly met, also
in London, on October 24, 1946."
Here endeth the history lesson.
ISO as an Acronym would appear to be a devlopment from ISA, and
does not create any precedences in the standards world. Here are
a couple of others;
ARSO - African Regional Organisation for Standardization (UN).
ASMO - Arab Organisation for Standardization and Metrology.
CEN - European Standards Coordinating Committee.
SPARC - Standards Planning and Requirements Committee of ANCS X3.
STACO - Standing Committee for the Study of Principles of
Standardization.(ISO)
My oppinion is that indirect acronyms which aid the vocalisation
of organisation titles in a multinational/multilingual arena
are a natural development....
CDP
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| 394.5 | Planned Confusion | MAGOO::PFC | What a concept! | Wed Aug 12 1987 11:06 | 7 |
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It was my impression that an attempt was made so that the initials
do not reflect the name in any one language. In other words, if
one language's name matched the initials, then that language would
somehow have a preeminince (sp?). Sort of a linguistic diplomacy.
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| 394.6 | | ERIS::CALLAS | Strange days, indeed. | Wed Aug 12 1987 14:04 | 13 |
| As I remember, ISO is not strictly an acronym. Since it is an
international organization, an acronym for several languages is not
readily possible. However, it is possible to get a name that
incorporates those three letters in several languages. Also, ISO is a
good international name because the greek prefix "iso-" is used in most
Western languages to mean "equal" -- a good name for a standards
organization.
Lastly, the English name for ISO is I.O.S. on purpose -- it was
considered bad form to have the English name be I.S.O. This is another
instance of linguistic diplomacy.
Jon
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