Date: 9 May 2001 14:37:48 -0700 From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
CCITT, and of course the favorite ISO, International Organization for Standardization.
And just what does ISO stand for? Actually, ISO is not a real acronym. It's a synthetic TLA because the French demanded that the official acronym reflect the French name of the body (ala CCITT) while the English got annoyed that EVERY international body has to have the official name in French and refused. The compromise (Henry Clay would have been proud) was to use three letters that appear in the name in both French and English in an order that did not reflect either the French or English name. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634