International Organization for Standardization

  

Geneva

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February 23, 1947

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The International Organization for Standardization - short ISO (from the Greek ἴσος isos, equal to '; English International Organization for Standardization) - is the international organization of standardization organizations and establishes international standards in all areas with the exception of electrical and electronics, for which the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC ) is responsible, and with the exception of telecommunications, for which the International telecommunication Union ( ITU ) is responsible. Together, these three organizations, the WSC (World Standards Cooperation ).

Structure and history

From 14 to October 26, 1946, an international conference of national standardization organizations was held in London, attended by delegates from 25 countries. On this, the decision was taken to establish a new international organization, both the ISA - the organization founded in 1926, had in 1942 ceased their activities - as well as the standards - ordinating Committee of the United Nations ( UNSCC - United Nations Standards Coordinating Committee ) should be replaced. Headquarters of this organization should be Geneva, where the ISO on February 23, 1947 started its activities. The Austrian Standards Institute was there a founding member.

Meanwhile more than 150 countries are represented in the ISO. Each member represents a country, where there is also only one member from each country. The German Institute for Standardization (DIN) is since 1951 a member of the ISO for the Federal Republic of Germany. There are technical (eg MP3 or phone cards ), classificatory ( eg country codes like. " De ", ". Nl ", ". Jp " ) and process standards (eg quality management according to ISO 9000).

The official languages ​​of ISO are English and French. In these languages, the ISO standards are published. The national standardization organizations are responsible for translations.

Origin of the acronym ISO

Translations of the name International Organization for Standardization yield different abbreviations, depending on the language, for example: IOS ( International Organization for Standardization) in English or OIN (Organisation internationale de normalization tion ) in French. Therefore we chose the uniform designation as ISO, which is derived from the Greek word " isos " meaning "equal". Thus, the short name in any country and any language is uniform.

Process

The standardization process of the ISO proceeds in several steps. (Note: The German names are unofficial translations. )

In addition to the IS, there are four other types of results published by the ISO, whose production process is different.

Cooperations

Some standards are developed in collaboration with other international standardization organizations such as the International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC), developed and published. In the terms of this standard, the organizations involved are separated by a slash, such as " ISO / IEC 8859 ".

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