Iso Organization

"International Organization for Standardization" is better known as ISO . It has lots of influence over governments, see WikiPedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO.

ISO has working relationships with other standard setting institutions such as ANSI (US based), ECMA (European)

Some of the ISO influences at WardsWiki include:

• OpenSystemsInterconnect
• IsoNineThousand
• StandardGeneralizedMarkupLanguage (father of ExtensibleMarkupLanguage)
• IsoSecurity
• TopicMaps
• ?? programming languages

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Note: ISO is not an acronym; it comes from the Greek word ίσος (isos), meaning "equal".