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Re: Internet / Intranet Documents and a big ISO misunderstanding
Subject:Re: Internet / Intranet Documents and a big ISO misunderstanding From:Barry Kieffer <barry -dot- kieffer -at- EXGATE -dot- TEK -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:25:49 -0700
Robert Maxey stated:
> "We are ISO Certified, so documentation becomes a big deal."
>
<Pet Peeve>
OK, All together now:
- ISO certification is not possible.
No company is ISO certified.
You are ISO registered.
This simply means that the ISO registrar that your company hired thinks the
ISO documentation that your company has and the processes your company
follows is adequate.
A different ISO registrar from a different company may not have registered
your company.
</Pet Peeve>
ISO registered or not, documentation is always a big deal - it is what we
get paid to do.
