(ISO) A voluntary, nontreaty organisation founded in 1946, responsible for creating international standards in many areas, including computers and communications.Its members are the national standards organisations of 89 countries, including the {American National Standards Institute}.ISO produced the OSI seven layer model for network architecture.The term "ISO" is not actually an acronym for anything.It is a pun on the Greek prefix "iso-", meaning "same".Some ISO documents say ISO is not an acronym even though it is an anagram of the initials of the organisation' s name.Start .(1999-06-22)