Un terrain particulier s'ouvre, aux yeux des europeens, a une cooperation plus accrue entre americains et europeens : celui des standards internationaux pour les technologies d'information et les telecommunications, deux secteurs dont l'imbrication marquera l'activite economique future.
The Europeans felt that new particularly fertile field for closer cooperation between Americans and Europeans was now opening up in the form of the work on international standards for information technologies and telecommunications, two inter-related fields bound to shape economic activity in future.