The Interscript project was first conceived in 2017 stemming from the work at ISO 24229 "Codes for script conversion systems" of ISO/TC 46/WG 3. The initial work was led by Ribose...
A method was needed to allow for interoperability of transliteration systems of identical definitions, and also a way to implement machine-executable script conversion systems such that they are platform-independent and also independent of programming languages.