International Organization for Standardization
     
         (ISO) A voluntary, nontreaty organisation
        founded in 1946, responsible for creating international
        standards in many areas, including computers and
        communications.  Its members are the national standards
        organisations of 89 countries, including the American
        National Standards Institute.
     
        ISO produced the OSI seven layer model for network
        architecture.
     
        The term "ISO" is not actually an acronym for anything.  It is
        a pun on the Greek prefix "iso-", meaning "same".  Some ISO
        documents say ISO is not an acronym even though it is an
        anagram of the initials of the organisation's name.
     
        Home (http://www.iso.ch/).
     
        (1999-06-22)