body set up in 1947 with a secretariat in Geneva to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating international exchange of goods and services and to developing cooperation in the sphere of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity, network of national standards institutes, with a central secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, which is is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards, ülemaailmne rahvuslike standardiorganite liit, kes tegeleb standardimisega kõikidel aladel, v.a elektrotehnika, elektroonika ja telekommunikatsioon, veebruaril 1947 asutatud valitsusväline rahvusvaheline organisatsioon, mis tegeleb rahvusvaheliste tööstuslike ja kommertsstandarditega