Editing Deutsches Institut für Normung (section)

== History ==
Founded in 1917 as the ''{{lang|de|Normenausschuß der deutschen Industrie}}''<!-- szlig is old German spelling --> (NADI, "Standardisation Committee of German Industry"), the NADI was renamed ''{{lang|de|Deutscher Normenausschuß}}''<!-- szlig is old German spelling --> (DNA, "German Standardisation Committee") in 1926 to reflect that the organization now dealt with standardization issues in many fields; viz., not just for industrial products. In 1975 it was renamed again to ''{{lang|de|Deutsches Institut für Normung}}'', or 'DIN' and is recognised by the German government as the official national-standards body, representing German interests at the international and [[Europe]]an levels.

The [[acronym]], 'DIN' is often incorrectly expanded as ''{{lang|de|Deutsche Industrienorm}}'' ("German Industry Standard"). This is largely due to the historic origin of the DIN as "NADI". The NADI indeed published their standards as ''{{lang|de|DI-Norm}}'' (''{{lang|de|Deutsche Industrienorm}}''). For example, the first published standard was '{{lang|de|DI-Norm 1}}' (about [[tapered pin]]s) in 1918. Many people still mistakenly associate DIN with the old ''{{lang|de|DI-Norm}}'' naming convention.

One of the earliest, and probably the best known, is [[DIN 476]] &mdash; the standard that introduced the [[ISO 216#A series|A-series]] paper sizes in 1922 &mdash; adopted in 1975 as International Standard [[ISO 216]]. Common examples in modern technology include [[DIN connector|DIN]] and [[mini-DIN]] connectors for electronics, and the [[DIN rail]].

[[DIN SPEC 3105]], published in 2020, is "the first German standard to be published under an [[Open-license|open license]] ([[CC BY-SA 4.0|CC-BY-SA 4.0]]) [...] to implement an open standardisation process".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bonvoisin|first1=Jérémy|last2=Molloy|first2=Jenny|last3=Haeuer|first3=Martin|last4=Wenzel|first4=Tobias|date=2020-04-15|title=Standardisation of Practices in Open Source Hardware|journal=Journal of Open Hardware|volume=4|doi=10.5334/joh.22|arxiv=2004.07143|s2cid=215768760 |doi-access=free }}</ref>