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10 unusual facts about International Organization for Standardization


Abels Moving Services

ISO 9001:2008 Abels are audited to the BS (British), EN (European) ISO (International) 9001 - 2008 Quality Standard.

Balasore College of Engineering and Technology

It is an AICTE approved institute and is an ISO 9001:2008 certified institute.

Catherine Cesarsky

She was the Principal Investigator of the ISOCAM camera on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) of the European Space Agency (ESA), which flew between 1995 and 1998.

Denel Dynamics Bateleur

It also makes it possible for the aircraft, once disassembled, to fit inside a 6 m ISO shipping container.

International Organization for Standardization

The first step—a proposal of work (New Proposal) is approved at the relevant subcommittee or technical committee (e.g., SC29 and JTC1 respectively in the case of Moving Picture Experts Group - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11).

James Pustejovsky

The TimeML project is a standard markup language for temporal events in a document, and has recently been adopted as ISO-TImeML by the ISO.

National Energy Foundation

Most of the charity's work is within the UK, although it participates in a number of EU projects, has undertaken some work in SE Asia and actively supports international standardisation work through CEN and ISO.

S. Brent Morris

Morris has served as Executive of the Cryptologic Mathematician Program at the National Security Agency and as U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the area of computer security.

SC34

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, the ISO document subcommittee of Joint Technical Committee 1.

Scalable Video Coding

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC was developed jointly by ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC 1.


Arcos Dorados Holdings

The company has check points throughout the supply chain to ensure food safety, cleanliness and consistency based on globally-recognized, established industry standards including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Plan (HACCP).

Association of International Collective Management of Audiovisual Works

AGICOA, together with CISAC and FIAPF, is founding partner of ISAN IA, the International Agency which delivers the ISO standard, ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number), a voluntary numbering system for the identification of audiovisual works.

C++

The current standard extending C++ with new features was ratified and published by ISO in September 2011 as ISO/IEC 14882:2011 (informally known as C++11).

In 1998, the C++ standards committee (the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 working group) standardized C++ and published the international standard ISO/IEC 14882:1998 (informally known as C++98).

CEN/CENELEC Guide 6

The ISO/IEC Policy Statement 2000 "Addressing the Needs of Older Persons and People with Disabilities in Standardization Work" already provided principles and considerations for ensuring that the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities are addressed in the standardisation process.

In 2000 ISO and IEC published the policy statement: "Addressing the needs of older persons and people with disabilities in standardization work".

Custody transfer

Custody transfer metering systems must meet requirements set by industry bodies such as AGA, API, or ISO, and national metrology standards such as OIML (International), NIST (U.S.), PTB (Germany), CMC (China), and GOST (Russia), among others.

Damavand Mineral Water

Having been taken into account for its great objectives, Damavand Mineral Waters Co. has achieved international certifications of ISO 22000 (food security), ISO 14001 (environment) and ISO 9001 (quality management).

Document layout analysis

Document layout is formally defined in the international standard ISO 8613-1:1989.

Interlibrary loan

Processes are automated by computer systems such as VDX based on ISO ILL standards 10161 and 10160.

K L University

The institution is recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, has been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation, and is certified by ISO 9001 - 2000.

Lisa Seeman

Seeman was also involved with ISOC IL, ACLIP, and has worked with accessibility groups of organisations such as Dublin Core and ISO.

Management information base

Most often associated with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), the term is also used more generically in contexts such as in OSI/ISO Network management model.

Metamodeling

ISO has also published the standard metamodel ISO/IEC 24744.

National Imagery Transmission Format

NITF has adopted the ISO/IEC 15444-1 standard for imagery compression, JPEG 2000.

Pitting Resistance Equivalent Number

Furthermore a PREN-value ≥ 40 for duplex steels is called for in the DIN EN ISO 15156 as well as the American NACE - a standard for use in hydrogen sulfide environments known in the oil and gas extraction industries.

T. V. Rao

Currently, he is developing HRD Auditors and Trainers of Development Centers and creating manuals for HRD Audit in an effort to make HRD Audit like ISO certification.

Telebiometrics

"Telebiometrics related to human physiology, IEC 80000-14" specification is one of a set of International Standards produced jointly by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) under their Joint Technical Committee.

Ultrasonic thickness measurement

For ISO and CEN standards relating to UTM and related techniques, see the article Ultrasonic testing.

Wirth syntax notation

WSN has been used in several international standards, starting with ISO 10303-21.