That the four frigate captains proceeded to act in such perfect concert is further evidence, if it were needed, of the shared standards of mutual help and assistance".

Standard Agreement is the coordinating vehicle for establishing shared technical standards among NATO nations.

This allows for moral discourse with shared standards, notwithstanding the descriptive properties or truth conditions of moral terms.

Central to this is the fact that scrutiny is facilitated by shared professional standards of valid inference, which, in turn, tend to be continually sharpened by debate within the profession.

The industry has already made considerable progress in establishing widely shared standards in other fields like automated data communication and exchange, called Web services, which is considered crucial for expanding Internet commerce.

This can only be offset by retrenched national sovereignty to reinforce shared national standards in tax, trade, and tariff laws, and by placing the trust in civil society in such "moral labels".

Safety representatives contend that if the United States adopts the European standard, it could be difficult later to force a change in the shared standard to account for the impact of light trucks.

While it is cooperating in creating shared standards, the United States has insisted that Galileo not interfere with the parts of the spectrum used for American military signals.

"It is starting to be recognised, across the sector, that some requirements are similar and that we need to work together on shared standards and systems," said one contributor.

While there has been other software permitting three-dimensional representations on computer screens, V.R.M.L. established for the first time a widely shared standard, accessible to any computer or operating system.