ISLISP was defined/implemented mostly outside of the US (exception, Kent Pitman, IIRC) and mostly by work from Europe&Japan. But that funding dried up long ago.

ISLISP was defined/implemented mostly outside of the US (exception, Kent Pitman, IIRC) and mostly by work from Europe&Japan. But that funding dried up long ago. One of its purposes was to have a Lisp standard outside of the USA, not controlled by US standards bodies and US vendors/users. It's too much like Common Lisp and the standard itself is not bringing exciting stuff. It's nice in itself, but not really needed. Can't remember anything in the language which really addresses the delivery topic - though I've never read the spec in depth.