Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

International Federation for Information Processing
     
         A multinational federation of professional and technical
        organisations (or national groupings of such organisations)
        concerned with information processing.  From any one country,
        only one such organisation - which must be representative of
        the national activities in the field of information processing
        - can be admitted as a Full Member.  In addition, a regional
        group of developing countries can be admitted as a Full
        Member.  On 1 October 1993, 46 organisations were Full Members
        of the Federation, representing 66 countries.
     
        IFIP was founded under the auspices of UNESCO and advises them
        and the {ITU-T}.
     
        {(http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html)}.
     
        (1995-03-10)