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The history of "-ised"
That's interesting, but I'm not sure I follow what you are saying (and it's not strictly relevant here). Do you mean that historically we all said "-ized" but the UK has moved to "-ised" in a recent fashion shift? I'm pretty sure I've noticed "-ized" in British books of the 50s.
In this case, however, it's irrelevant. We're using the proper name of the body, and should use its' own spelling here. We wouldn't "correct" someone's name from "Steven" to "Stephen" or "Marc" to "Mark". Likewise, we don't correct "International Organization for Standardization" to "International Organisation for Standardisation".
If nothing else, ISO is a pedantic bunch of people and we wouldn't want to annoy it.
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