Localization Industry Standards Association or LISA was a Swiss-based trade body concerning the translation of computer software (and associated materials) into multiple natural languages, which existed from 1990 to February 2011.
It counted among its members most of the large information technology companies of the period, including Adobe, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, McAfee, Nokia, Novell and Xerox.
[5] A number of the LISA standards are used by the OASIS Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization framework.
LISA shut down on 28 February 2011,[6] and its website went offline shortly afterwards.
In the wake of the closure of LISA, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute started an Industry Specification Group (ISG) for localization.