What does ISO (as in the disk image format) stand for? [duplicate]

Just a question for curiosity's sake; what do the letters ISO stand for?

I know that ISO files follow ISO-9660, the ISO in which stands for International Standards Organisation, but a lot of file formats will presumably follow some ISO standard, so that seems incorrect.

I couldn't find any answers to this on Wiki / Google

My best guess so far is: Image Standard Optical.

2 Answers

I know that ISO files follow ISO-9660, the ISO in which stands for International Standards Organisation, but a lot of file formats will presumably follow some ISO standard, so that seems incorrect.

Yes, but then they have a different name for the file system (not ISO-9660).

Also, this little logical fact has never stopped someone from ignoring it. The file extension does come - as per Wikipedia - from that (the ISO-9660 file system).

SOmeone just had to pick something and made that choise.

Did you really check wikipedia?

ISO 9660 (...) is a file system standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for optical disc media