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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO / ˈaɪsoʊ / [3]) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. [4] Membership requirements are given in Article 3 of the ISO Statutes.
International standard. An international standard is a technical standard developed by one or more international standards organizations. International standards are available for consideration and use worldwide. The most prominent such organization is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise contributing to the usefulness of technical standards [1] to those who employ them.
This is a list of published [note 1] standards and other deliverables of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [note 2] For a complete and up-to-date list of all the ISO standards, see the ISO catalogue. [1] The standards are protected by copyright and most of them must be purchased.
There are, as of 2020, 165 members of the International Organization for Standardization. Three types of membership status can be distinguished: [1] full member (member body) correspondent member; subscriber member
The ISO 9000 family is a set of five quality management systems (QMS) standards by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that help organizations ensure they meet customer and other stakeholder needs within statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service. [1] ISO 9000 deals with the fundamentals and ...
ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is a standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical international standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems and services. Some 12,575 apply globally.
The first modern International Organization (Intergovernmental Organization) the International Telegraph Union (now International Telecommunication Union) was created in 1865 [17] to set international standards in order to connect national telegraph networks, as a merger of two predecessor organizations (Bern and Paris treaties) that had ...