STANDARD BODIES

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (http://ww-wiso.ch) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from more than 140 countries, one from each country. ISO is a non-gov-ernmental organization established in 1947 The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellec-tual, scientific, technological and economic activity Though ISO is commonly believed as the acronym for International Standard Organization, in fact the word 'ISO' is derived from the Greek isos, meaning 'equal'. Sometimes ISO makes its own standard, sometime it adapts standards from its member organizations and makes it an international standard. One of the most widely known standard from ISO is IS09000. IS09000 relates to Software quality. The famous 7-layer model for Open System Interconnection (OSI) is ISO standard (IS07498). For Information security ISO has come up with the recommendation ISO 17799.
International Organization for Standardization