Talk:International Organization for Standardization

message: The current map is incorrect; Taiwan is marked as being an ISO member, but is not - it has no representation in the organization (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_in_the_International_Organization_for_Standardization). The previous map got this right (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO_Members.svg). Should the existing map be updated, or replaced with the older, correct version?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.142.121.165 (talk) 04:09, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Current Map Error

message: What's the copyright status of the standard documents? They are for sale in the ISO website Davidme 03:29 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
:
The material on ISO Online is subject to the same conditions of copyright as ISO publications, and its use is subject to the user's acceptance of ISO's conditions of copyright for ISO publications, as set out below. Any use of the material, including reproduction in whole or in part to another Internet site, requires permission in writing from ISO.
The short country names from ISO 3166-1 and the alpha-2 codes are made available by ISO at no charge for internal use and non-commercial purposes. The use of ISO 3166-1 in commercial products may be subject to a licence fee.
Is this GFDL-compatible? Davidme
: No, the ISO standards are public, in that they are published, and you can use them to claim conformance. But while the standards documents are available for purchase, they are pretty expensive. You can get a license from ISO to reprint or include a standard in another publication, but the license is also expensive, and their terms for any on-line use are so prohibitve that almost no online versions exist. Lou I
:: Why no mention about this being self-defeating? Many small (or non-profit) software developers are forced to use incomplete and frequently inaccurate 3rd-party specifications or old ISO drafts due to the prohibitive cost of ISO documents. This issue works directly against the mandate of ISO. Boardhead 16:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ISO and Copyrights

message: The ISO (IMHO) is not an non-governmental organization. I expect to update the article in September to reflect that opinion, but have placed this note and will allow at least two weeks for comments. Lou I 19:48, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: ISO is a non-governmental organization: its members are not, as is the case in the United Nations system, delegations of national governments. Nevertheless, ISO occupies a special position between the public and private sectors. This is because, on the one hand, many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry associations.
-- Heron
Heron and I have pretty well agreed to include something like the following statement: "While the ISO defines itself as an NGO, its ability to set standards which often become law makes it more powerful than most NGOs, and in practice it acts as a consortium with strong links to governments and major corporations." Lou I 18:56, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion before Article Update

message: Okay, this one's probably been done to death, and if it has feel free to point me to the discussion (assuming it's archived somewhere). BUT... has it been decided by consensus somewhere that the ISO page should be a redirect here and not a disambiguation page that also points to ISO rating? I understand that ISO rating is an American standard and all, but right now if I search Wikipedia for ISO -all- I get is pointers to this page. ISO rating gets swallowed up and is pretty much unfindable. --Bcordes 17:21, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)
:Replying to my own comment, ISO rating got redirected to Film speed, which is turns out is an ISO standard. So, I added an entry for ISO 5800 on List of ISO Standards and added a redirect at ISO 5800 to Film speed. Searching for "ISO film" gives you a link to ANSI, which gets you to the right place. So I'm happy now. :) --Bcordes 21:51, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)
:What does ISO mean when applied to a digital camera without film?   Isn't ISO the same thing as "Interval Shutter Open"?   Most digital cameras let you choose an ISO rating, or ISO level, where ISO - - - whatever the letters stand for - - - appears to have, in that respect, all the properties of a wide open aperture, and a very high sampling rate.   In this way an ISO of 3200 produces a very deeply exposed picture.   216.99.201.133 (talk) 10:21, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is not the interval shutter speed. The short answer is that the ISO rating is a way of measuring/setting the signal gain of the light sensor. A much more detailed explanation is at ISO_rating#Digital_camera_ISO_speed_and_exposure_index. Mitch Ames (talk) 10:18, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation with ISO Rating

message: I'm fairly new to Wiki, so I won't be surprised if I've missed this. Essentially, there is a very large group known as ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, that exists to handle the overlap in responsibilities for International Standardization between ISO and IEC. It consists of a number of sub-committees which are subsequently divided into working groups. I think there should be some type of entry for ISO/IEC JTC1, but I'm at a loss at how to apporach this. Should it be a stand-alone article or is there a way to link the ISO and IEC article together and capture the material?
I did find a single entry that referenced JTC1, but there was no link, not even a link to a non-existent article. Colin 23:22, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest that you create a new section in this article titled == ISO/IEC JTC1 ==, explaining what it is and linking to IEC. You can add a similar section to the IEC article, linking to ISO. If somebody later decides to make this a separate article, then that's easily done, but the most important thing is to get the information out of your head and in to Wikipedia. Hope this helps. --Heron 16:11, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: Nice work, Colin. You'll find a long list of NSOs at Standards organization, so you won't have to type them all in. --Heron 15:11, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Connection back to IEC

message: Is "iso" (lower-case) a standard/accepted way to refer to ISO? I've never seen it -- except from slang referring to ISO-9660 disc images such as "I'll burn that iso now", which I believe to be not relevant to this article, or at least not meant as in the context "iso" was listed. I suggest removing the or "iso" bit at the opening paragraph. --LodeRunner 04:26, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "or iso"?

message: In the paragraph "The name", ISO is referred to be a name from Greek, but in the first line, it is an acronym. Which choice to be held? --Ch. Rogel 10:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see where we say that it's an acronym. What am I missing? --Heron 11:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I realize this question was asked many years ago, but it is of interest to me so I'm responding. The IPA pronunciation is given as (ISO ), which is how to pronounce it as an acronym. I would like to correct it, but would it be appropriate to include a mention of the controversy over its name? Many people, particularly in the photography industry, pronounce it as an acronym. For reference, Nick Highham wrote, "Looking at photography books on my shelves, I find that The Complete Photography Course (by M. Joseph and D. Saunders, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993), Digital Food Photography (L. Manna, Thomson, 2005), and The Art of Black and White Photography (J. Garrett, Amphoto, 1990) all state that ISO is an abbreviation for the “International Standards Organization”. This is what you would guess if you reverse engineer the abbreviation, but it is not correct." --FlippingBinary (talk) 12:13, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Is ISO an acronym or not?

message: I've removed the added pronunciation guide for "most other languages", which read: . Given that most other languages don't even possess the vowels given here, and that each probably has their own pronunciation for the word, I can't credit that there exists a single "non-English" pronunciation for ISO (and if there did, it would more likely be [iso], or perhaps [izo]). If someone has evidence in support of the other pronunciation, though, feel free to restore it. Thylacoleo 07:03, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Other languages" pronunciation

message: We have "The reason it is in all caps in writing is that it appears that way in the Organization's logo (above). " This is plainly ridiculous. There are countless organisations and companies that have all-caps logos, but we don't do this for them. Are there any better explanations? Crazeman 22:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: +1 Palpalpalpal (talk) 18:30, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

text: See  TEDickey (talk) 18:44, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The name

message: Can a section on ISO Guides be started? I am interested in Guide 34.TJMQAM 21:03, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ISO Guides

message: How can you possibly consider a link to the ISO website in an article on ISO to be spam?
That is rediculous!
Please do not revert it agvain without providing an explanation.
Jerry lavoie 22:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: SPAM?????????

message: Does anybody else think it's amusing that the International Organization for Standardization logo is in both English and French? I guess they haven't gotten around to standardizing that yet.
:Yes, & the English part of the logo is in "American English" not "International English". Swampy 124.179.92.243 (talk) 13:42, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not American English. It's Oxford spelling. 86.47.108.97 (talk) 21:10, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Languages

message: anybody know where is the location of this organization? It's strange to look around and not to find the actual place where ISO Members meet! AshrafSS 05:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they're based in Geneva. They say so right on their home page, which currently has an announcement that they just consolidated from several buildings into one building in Geneva. --Coolcaesar 05:57, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The secretariat is in Geneva. However, all standards voting is done by National Bodies, the decision-making on committees is by delegations from National Bodies. These committees have meetings anywhere in the world, as convenient to the delegations. Rick Jelliffe (talk) 08:08, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Where is ISO?

message: :Image:ISO French logo.svg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot 05:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:ISO French logo.svg

message: :Image:ISO english logo.svg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot 05:35, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:ISO english logo.svg

message: Many have been tidied in recent days, and 1475+ since the beginning of the year:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organization+for+Standardization (Correct Version: Z and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organisation+for+Standardisation (Acceptable Alternative: S and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organisation+for+Standardization (Inconsistent: S and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organization+for+Standardisation (Inconsistent: Z and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organization+for+Standards%22 (Incorrect Name: for standards and Plural and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organisation+for+Standards%22 (Incorrect Name: for standards and Plural and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organization+for+Standard%22 (Incorrect Name: for standard and Single and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organisation+for+Standard%22 (Incorrect Name: for standard and Single and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organization+of+Standardization%22 (Incorrect Name: of and Z and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organization+of+Standardisation%22 (Incorrect Name: of and Z and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organisation+of+Standardization%22 (Incorrect Name: of and S and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organisation+of+Standardisation%22 (Incorrect Name: of and S and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organization+of+Standards%22 (Incorrect Name: of standards and Plural and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organisation+of+Standards%22 (Incorrect Name: of standards and Plural and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organization+of+Standard%22  (Incorrect Name: of standard and Single and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22International+Organisation+of+Standard%22  (Incorrect Name: of standard and Single and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardization+organization%22 (Incorrect Name: Z and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardization+organisation%22 (Incorrect Name: Z and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardisation+organization%22 (Incorrect Name: S and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardisation+organisation%22 (Incorrect Name: S and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standards+organization%22  (Incorrect Name: Plural and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standards+organisation%22  (Incorrect Name: Plural and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standard+organization%22  (Incorrect Name: Single and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standard+organisation%22  (Incorrect Name: Single and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organization+for+international+standardization%22  (Incorrect Name: for and Z and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organization+for+international+standardisation%22  (Incorrect Name: for and Z and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organisation+for+international+standardization%22  (Incorrect Name: for and S and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organisation+for+international+standardisation%22  (Incorrect Name: for and S and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organization+for+international+standards%22  (Incorrect Name: for standards and plural and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organisation+for+international+standards%22  (Incorrect Name: for standards and plural and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organization+for+international+standard%22  (Incorrect Name: for standard and single and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organisation+for+international+standard%22  (Incorrect Name: for standard and single and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organization+of+international+standardization%22  (Incorrect Name: of and Z and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organization+of+international+standardisation%22  (Incorrect Name: of and Z and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organisation+of+international+standardization%22  (Incorrect Name: of and S and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organisation+of+international+standardisation%22  (Incorrect Name: of and S and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organization+of+international+standards%22  (Incorrect Name: of and standards and plural and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organisation+of+international+standards%22  (Incorrect Name: of and standards and plural and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organization+of+international+standard%22  (Incorrect Name: of and standard and single and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22organisation+of+international+standard%22  (Incorrect Name: of and standard and single and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardization+for+organization%22 (Incorrect Name: for and Z and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardization+for+organisation%22 (Incorrect Name: for and Z and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardisation+for+organization%22 (Incorrect Name: for and S and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardisation+for+organisation%22 (Incorrect Name: for and S and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standards+for+organization%22  (Incorrect Name: for and Plural and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standards+for+organisation%22  (Incorrect Name: for and Plural and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standard+for+organization%22  (Incorrect Name: for and Single and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standard+for+organisation%22  (Incorrect Name: for and Single and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardization+of+organization%22 (Incorrect Name: of and Z and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardization+of+organisation%22 (Incorrect Name: of and Z and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardisation+of+organization%22 (Incorrect Name: of and S and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standardisation+of+organisation%22 (Incorrect Name: of and S and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standards+of+organization%22  (Incorrect Name: of and Plural and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standards+of+organisation%22  (Incorrect Name: of and Plural and S)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standard+of+organization%22  (Incorrect Name: of and Single and Z)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:wikipedia.org+%22international+standard+of+organisation%22  (Incorrect Name: of and Single and S) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.73.229.140 (talk) 09:40, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect Naming within Wikipedia

message: The current version of the article reads, literally, that International Organization for Standardization (Organisation internationale de normalisation), widely known as ISO, is a corrupt international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations... this is clearly POV and although I do not know what could be the reasons behind the claim, the link is given does not clearly state it and, even if it did, this is hardly the encyclopedic tone that one would expect from wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.45.251.100 (talk) 16:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Headline text

message: In the 'Name and abbreviation' section it says American English is one of the official languages of ISO. However, their website doesn't seem to support this. I can't find any explicit statement on the style of English they use, but their usage suggests it's not American, for example, they use the spellings 'centre', 'programme' and 'aluminium'. It appears to follow the Oxford spelling style, so I suggest we change it to that, but I would like to find a reference. Potahto (talk) 17:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Pardon me for following you around ;) Yes, ISO uses Oxford spelling, but first of all, American English isn't the official language of anything on earth, since it's not even a language in the first place--according to, duh, ISO. Organization vs. organisation is just a spelling convention and has nothing to do with language; furthermore, the spelling organization is not an Americanism at all, although many British people (and even more Australians and New Zealanders) think it is. Let's just say that the logos are written in English and French--no doubt about that. Jack(Lumber) 18:42, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Indeed, that sentence used to read "English and French," but it was changed by an anonymous British editor on February 3, 2008; in addition, the same editor seems to think that "American English" is spoken in America and "English" is spoken in England. Which is not entirely wrong, although it implies two different POVs. Jack(Lumber) 18:53, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, watching Hollyoaks can have side effects :). Thinking -ize is an Americanism seems to be a common mistake everywhere, perhaps a reflection of how quickly language can change (although that might be a bad example). Often the mistakes people make are more interesting than what they get right. An American friend of mine used to think 'parameter' was spelt 'parametre' in Britain... Anyway, that's off-topic. Potahto (talk) 10:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

text: WP:SOFIXIT. But don't change "-ize" to "-ise". And use the edit summary field to explain what you're doing; often unexplained spelling changes are considered vandalism. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:03, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: American English

message: my comment at Talk:List of ISO standards#A topic of...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.64.219.44 (talk) 02:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: A red link is added to see....

message: my comment at Talk:Standards organization#A topic of ....
--222.67.209.134 (talk) 10:32, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Another red link of ''List of WHO standards'' is added and see....

message: the following info of Codex Alimentarius and the following:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=allintitle%3A+FAO%2FWHO+standards&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=Search
--222.67.209.134 (talk) 11:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: One more red link of ''List of Codex Alimentarius standards'' has been added based on...

message: their standard publishing process???  Do their standard publishing belong to academic publishing or governmental rule-based publishing????
See my complaint about their publishing
Talk:Dairy product#Literature review info of ISO 3594:1976 is needed.....
--222.67.209.144 (talk) 03:50, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Could someone please provide the info about....

message: The description of the page is not precise and see the following search results
* http://www.iso.org/iso/about/principal_officers/alan_morrison.htm--222.64.222.139 (talk) 10:11, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The president of the org is not entirely traceable....

message: The term of FDIS is not searchable within the site but enabled by an external search engine
* http://www.iso.org/iso/search.htm?qt=FDIS&searchSubmit=Search&sort=rel&type=simple&published=on
* http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=FDIS+site:www.iso.org&start=0&sa=N
--222.64.21.59 (talk) 23:07, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ISO website itself has got Systems Interconnection problems

message: Why are there two formats...??? - see the main topic--222.64.26.227 (talk) 22:33, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming convention of the sub-committees...???

message: * http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?ics1=35&ics2=240&ics3=80&csnumber=37890
* http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=44084&ICS1=35&ICS2=240&ICS3=80
--222.64.22.162 (talk) 03:04, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Please explain the following unusual document codes/identifiers.....

message: * http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?ics1=03&ics2=120&ics3=10&csnumber=41768
* http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=03&ICS2=120&ICS3=10&
--222.64.22.162 (talk) 04:19, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Unusual ISO document codes/identifiers....continued......

message: To me IWA can only become voluntary compliance if one wish whereas formal standards do not
--222.64.22.162 (talk) 04:30, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Legal issue between IWA and formal standards.....

message: * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?as_q=ISO+Guide+34&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en
* http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?ics1=03&ics2=120&ics3=10&csnumber=50174
----
Unless to notify all the editors in a deliverable way.  Otherwise please close this site, in case of misleading the public
--222.64.22.162 (talk) 04:39, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki admin, please be aware of the following......it affect the site publishing.....

message: Wasn't paying attention and absolutely do not represent my employer in this issue.  My dislike of this organization is my own.  Still if someone wants to add the very amusing content below feel free to.  Everyone knew ISO would end up with egg on its face all the way through the M$ farce xml standard.
Alex Brown, who presided over the ISO vote in April 2008 that ratified the spec as ISO convener of the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting, accused Microsoft of acting in bad faith for implementing a "transitional" variant of the OOXML spec and not the strict version in Office 2010.
"If Microsoft ships Office 2010 to handle only the Transitional variant of ISO/IEC 29500 they should expect to be roundly condemned for breaking faith with the International Standards community. This is not the format 'approved by ISO/IEC', it is the format that was rejected,"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.94.94.105 (talk) 21:23, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Added then Deleted following content under crisisms

message: for the sake of traceability.  Otherwise a third party validation is required
The same principle is applied to Google scholar kind of services and this site
--222.67.211.10 (talk) 09:58, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Hard copy publications of ISO....???

message: and I leave it for ISO 690 panelles to fix it up
--222.64.223.117 (talk) 01:10, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference section need to be closely examined.....

message: I think this text has been more or less copied from the ISO webpage on the stages of standard development, which would explain the British spelling.  (I didn't look closely, though, so I could be wrong.)  At any rate, it talks about "P-members", but there's no explanation of what such a person (organization?) is.  What is a P-member? Mcswell (talk) 19:15, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: P-members

message: * http://www.iso.org/iso/search.htm?qt=ISO+639&searchSubmit=Search&sort=rel&type=simple&published=on
* http://www.iso.org/iso/search.htm?qt=639&published=on&active_tab=standards
--222.67.207.250 (talk) 02:37, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Look at the search results from the site.....

message: * http://www.iso.org/iso/search.htm?qt=guide&searchSubmit=Search&sort=rel&type=simple&published=on
From the above search results, it can be seen that the ISO guides may not be less than ISO standards.  Therefore, a topic for the list is very much necessary
--222.64.218.64 (talk) 09:53, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The reason for the topic of [[List of ISO guides]]

message: * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+standard+expiry+date&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
* http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=en&safe=strict&q=standards+expiry+date&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
--222.64.218.64 (talk) 10:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Info about the standard expiry date.....

message: Why does this discussion page concern milk expiration dates?  The article has nothing to do with food and doesn't mention it, and I don't see any information regarding a merger.  Is this attached to the wrong article?
—Długosz (talk) 15:29, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Food?

message: I can't seem to find any infobox template for an ISO standard. That seems like an obvious omission to me.  Am I missing something?  If there really isn't such a beast, what sort of fields should be included in such a template? Macwhiz (talk) 17:23, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: ISO standard infobox?

message: In the infobox it says that the official languages are English, French, and Russian. Under the Name and abbreviation section, though, it says there are only two official languages: Enlish and French. Is this a mistake? --Akhil 0950 (talk) 18:37, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: From the early days of ISO, they used to publish standards in English, French and Russian. However I have not seen any recent standard in Russian, so it is possible that nowdays the current languages are only English and French. SV1XV (talk) 19:50, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Official Languages

message: I suggest that we should archive some old sections of this talk page. Does anyone want to set up an auto-archive? Does anyone object to my setting one one up?  Does anyone have any preferences for MiszaBot or ClueBot III? (I've not set up an auto-archive before, but I'm prepared to give it a go if no-one else does it, and no-one objects.) Mitch Ames (talk) 02:38, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archive early sections of this talk page? 

message: It is said in the article that ISO is a "body."
I don't think this definition is an appropriate one. What is a "body"? 
# Is it a foundation?
# Is it an association?
# Is it an LLC?
# Is it a part/department of a certain government?
This "body" word should be crlarified.
It should also be mentioned who assigns the members of the board (or executives).--144.122.104.211 (talk) 21:41, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What kind of a "body"? 

message: According to the wayback machine, the logo changed sometime between May 2012 and September 2012. The logo no longer includes the words. Hence the whole 'Name and abbreviation section is now incorrect. The logos are not in two of the official languages. The 'usually referred to by its short name' does not seem to accurately capture what ISO says about itself.  
It would be best to say:
The three official languages of the ISO are English, French and Russian.[3] The organisation is known as the International Organization for Standardization in English, l’Organisation internationale de normalisation in French and Международная организация по стандартизации in Russian.
As the organisation's website makes clear:
However, one of the founding delegates, Willy Kuert, recollected the original naming question with the comment: "I recently read that the name ISO was chosen because 'iso' is a Greek term meaning 'equal'. There was no mention of that in London!"[5]
The logo and the name ISO are both registered trademarks, and their use is restricted.[6]
None that back-formation of ISO into International Standards (or Standardization) Organisation is ambiguous. This would be unclear as to whether International was qualifying Standardization (an Organisation for International Standardization) or Organisation (an International Organisation for Standardization).87.112.25.173 (talk) 21:54, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've updated the article accordingly. Mitch Ames (talk) 09:28, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo, name and abbreviation 

message: I am writing several articles on project management  as part of the ASCE Body of Knowledge project ( or ASCE BoK) as well as the  Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge project  ( or PM BoK). ISO cites and parallels a lot of the materials.... 
Thanks ... 
Risk Engineer (talk) 17:53, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding ISO 21500 Guidance for Project Management 

message: The graphic on  this page lists Namibia as a "Correspondent member", while the table here lists Namibia as a "full member (member body)"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaemonBreed (talk • contribs) 22:10, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Namibia's Membership Discrepancy 

message: Atleast 2 apparently reliable sources (the Czech standards office and a professor in Die Zeit) mention 1928 as date of foundation for the predecessor organization ISA - the date is also shown in the article's plague image. I have added a maintenance tag about this contradiction with the current article (1926) for now. According to the Die Zeit article it seems like negotiations may have begun in 1926, but the organization was formally established in 1928. If these sources are correct, the date should be changed to 1928; preparatory negotiations usually do not count as "foundation" for an organization without a formal act. I am not sure which version is correct - a more knowledgeable editor should check and clarify this detail. GermanJoe (talk) 07:33, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISA foundation - 1926 or 1928? 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on International Organization for Standardization. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080404052723/http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2222 to http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2222
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:21, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Diannaa removed content without telling me what it was. Do I have the right to defend? Seems no. S/he portraits me as copyright violator, but does not show any proof. . In the history it says
 Diannaa (talk | contribs) at 20:38, 25 July 2017 
 (remove copyright content copied from http://qms-service.blogspot.ca/2011/04/how-to-use-iso-catalogue.html or elsewhere).
I have never been at that blog!!! Aleksander2017 (talk) 20:48, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. The material I removed appears at the webpage I mentioned in my edit summary as well as at various other locations online.  All content you add to Wikipedia must be written in your own words. — Diannaa (talk) 20:51, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of content by Diannaa 

message: Could we create a table of the standards that can be sorted? The ISO website is un-navigable and it would be very helpful to have all standards listed somewhere. I know this will be huge piece of work but wanted to flag it would be of immense value, especially for non-experts people searching for a way in! Jack Nunn 04:24, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Is List of International Organization for Standardization standards the list of ISO standards you wanted? --DavidCary (talk) 03:48, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  create table of ISO standards 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Iso. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 3#Iso until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  eviolite (talk) 23:43, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Iso" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: The short name ISO is pronounced as  and not . This incorrect latter form is frequently encountered, especially in photography when referring to film speed ("ISO setting"). In fact there are many books and videos which refer to ISO as an initialism for International Standards Organization, also incorrect. See earlier discussion, especially FlippingBinary's comments. For this reason, I think it would be good to explicitly state that ISO is *not* pronounced as separate letters, but as one word to help deter these commonly held misconceptions. Syu5488 (talk) 03:33, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of ISO 

message: Can someone add some rough estimate? Right now I don't know how many people work for ISO in total. I understand this is hard to measure but some approximate number would be fine + source. Right now I simply don't know and I came to wikipedia with that question. 2A02:8388:1600:A200:7F68:61BB:BDB:FB57 (talk) 04:08, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many people work for ISO 

message: What are the iso role in international trand in need the information for my monograph thanks 203.171.100.12 (talk) 05:35, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iso role in international trade  

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. Per consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 14:24, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: International Organization for Standardization →  – Per WP:COMMONNAME and MOS:ACROTITLE: "Acronyms should be used in a page name if the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject". PhotographyEdits (talk) 13:36, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

text: • Oppose same with the RAF comment. Lucifer in a maid outfit (talk) 22:59, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 1 November 2023