What foes ISO stand for?
snorgetnostral
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snorgetnostral wrote:
International Standards Organization
and FYI, OSI is:
Open System Interconnect (model)
Mark_Harju
Interconnect is the most widely accepted.
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<mark.a...@no-spam.boeing.com> wrote:
> OSI also stands for Open Source Initiative, though Open System
> Interconnect is the most widely accepted.
>
does the Open Source Initiative still refer to a network stack or
something along broader lines of open source? I'd assume the latter but
thought I'd ask to learn something.
Dumouchel Clermont
ISO follow this link:
http://linux.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_iso.htm?iam=dpile&terms=%2BIso
+%2BStandards
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Glitch
Dumouchel Clermont wrote:
>
> Are you asking for ISO or OSI?
>
> ISO follow this link:
> http://linux.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_iso.htm?iam=dpile&terms=%2BIso
> +%2BStandards
>
OSI since i siad Open Source Initiative down below. I never knew that
OSI also stood for OPen source initiative and wondered whether it
referred to open source just so far as the TCP/IP stack is concerned or
if it covered all open source in general.
Villy Kruse
Open Source Initiative just re-used the acronyme. There is no other
connection. Similarily .COM is an old MS-DOS executable file format
it is also one of the top levels in the internet domain, and I beleive
MS has found a new use for the COM acronyme.
Villy
Steve Martin
> Open Source Initiative just re-used the acronyme. There is no other
> connection. Similarily .COM is an old MS-DOS executable file format
> it is also one of the top levels in the internet domain, and I beleive
> MS has found a new use for the COM acronyme.
"Common Object Model"
Larry Ebbitt
everyone has been responding about OSI.
Doh!
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Scott Peshak
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Scott Peshak
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Larry Ebbitt
<pes...@northcentral.k12.ia.us> wrote:
>>I hate to admit it. but I'm confused. The OP asked about ISO and
>>everyone has been responding about OSI.
>>Doh!
>
> every one is dyslexic.
It makes me think of the agnostic dyslexic who lay awake wondering
if there was a dog.
Dheera Venkatraman
Officially International Organization for Standardization - makes me wonder
why it isn't called IOS...
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Michael Meissner
> http://www.iso.org/
> Officially International Organization for Standardization - makes me wonder
> why it isn't called IOS...
Because that would be biasing it towards the English language. Quoting from
their web site:
ISO's name
Many people will have noticed a seeming lack of correspondence between
the official title when used in full, International Organization for
Standardization, and the short form, ISO. Shouldn't the acronym be
"IOS"? Yes, if it were an acronym - which it is not.
In fact, "ISO" is a word, derived from the Greek isos, meaning "equal",
which is the root of the prefix "iso-" that occurs in a host of terms,
such as "isometric" (of equal measure or dimensions) and "isonomy"
(equality of laws, or of people before the law).
From "equal" to "standard", the line of thinking that led to the choice
of "ISO" as the name of the organization is easy to follow. In
addition, the name ISO is used around the world to denote the
organization, thus avoiding the plethora of acronyms resulting from the
translation of "International Organization for Standardization" into
the different national languages of members, e.g. IOS in English, OIN
in French (from Organisation internationale de normalisation).
Whatever the country, the short form of the Organization's name is
always ISO.
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Larry Ebbitt
<meis...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Whatever the country, the short form of the Organization's name is
> always ISO.
That makes sense. Thank you very much for the clarification.
kafd
wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:10:33 GMT, Michael Meissner
> <meis...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Whatever the country, the short form of the Organization's name is
>> always ISO.
>
>That makes sense. Thank you very much for the clarification.
The International Standards Organisation.
Funny they came up with the ISO model!
Open System Interconnect!
They came up with the standard for CDROM formats. A standard image of
a CDROM is called an ISO. It's one file that contains all the
information of a compete CD.
Barry
I heard a slightly improved version thus:
It makes me think of the agnostic dyslexic insomniac who lay awake
wondering
if there was a dog.