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ISO
(I) International Organization for Standardization, a voluntary,
non-treaty, non-government organization, established in 1947, with
voting members that are designated standards bodies of
participating nations and non-voting observer organizations. (See:
ANSI, ITU-T.)
(C) Legally, ISO is a Swiss, non-profit, private organization. ISO
and the IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form
the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National
bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in developing
international standards through ISO and IEC technical committees
that deal with particular fields of activity. Other international
governmental and non-governmental organizations, in liaison with
ISO and IEC, also take part. (ANSI is the U.S. voting member of
ISO. ISO is a class D member of ITU-T.)
(C) The ISO standards development process has four levels of
increasing maturity: Working Draft (WD), Committee Draft (CD),
Draft International Standard (DIS), and International Standard
(IS). (See: (standards track levels under) Internet Standard.) In
information technology, ISO and IEC have a joint technical
committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1. DISs adopted by JTC 1 are circulated to
national bodies for voting, and publication as an IS requires
approval by at least 75% of the national bodies casting a vote.
