The intent of ISO is to prop up the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to assisting international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and monetary activity.
ISO is responsible for standardizing the product for goods being sold in market to protect customer for purchasing poor quality item. ISO gained a status for being slow, bureaucratic, congested, and insensitive to feedback from both vendors and their customers.
ISO credentials are copyrighted and ISO charges for copies of most. ISO does not, however, charge for most draft copies of documents in electronic format. Although useful, care must be taken using these drafts, as there is the possibility of considerable change before it becomes finalized as a standard.
ISO produced technical reports for documents that cannot or should not become International Standards such as references, explanations, etc. These are major operations in ISO.
