ISO Definition/Meaning:
International Standards Organization, the body by which international
standards are established for everything from data-processing equipment to
machine screw sizes. It was founded in 1946 and its members comprise national
standards bodies in over 70 countries. It is of interest in the area of
information Processing in that it establishes the standard link protocols,
coding standards, machine-readable media-interchange standards, etc., that are
required to make it
possible for data to be communicated electronically between equipment of various
manufacturers and from various countries.
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