ole@csli.stanford.edu (Ole J. Jacobsen) (11/14/90)
Quick note: ISO does *not* stand for "International Standards Organization". It is *not* and acronym, but it does refer to the organzation whose official name is: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION. This "mistake" is perhaps the most common in the entire communications industry. Ole J Jacobsen, Editor & Publisher ConneXions--The Interoperability Report Interop, Inc., 480 San Antonio Road, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94040, USA Phone: (415) 941-3399 FAX: (415) 949-1779 Email: ole@csli.stanford.edu
HWT@bnr.ca (Henry Troup) (11/15/90)
Ole J. Jacobsen writes: > Quick note: ISO does *not* stand for "International Standards > Organization". It is *not* an acronym, but it does refer to the > organzation whose official name is: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR > STANDARDIZATION. This "mistake" is perhaps the most common in the > entire communications industry. Isn't the real "real name" in French? Same as CCITT is "Comitte Consulatif Internationale pour Telefon et Telegraf" (errors in French spelling and lack of accents notwithstanding). I think that the CCITT at least dates from the period where French was the standard language of diplomacy, and therefore international organizations used it as the official language of choice.