[legalxml-enotary] Draft Minutes

[jmessing <jmessing@law-on-line.com>]

eNotary TC Minutes 
Teleconference, February 4, 2003 
  
1. Roll Call 
  
Members 
  
Eric E. Cohen, Secretary and individual member 
Pieter Kasselman, Baltimore Technologies 
John Messing, Chair and individual member 
Manoj Srivastava, Infomosaic Corporation 
Charles Gilliam, ContentGuard.Inc. 
  
Observers 
  
Donald.Bergeron Lexis/Nexis and Chairman of the LegalXML Steering Committee 
  
2. Minutes 
  
Minutes of the meetings of November 18, 2002 and January 21, 2003 were approved by consensus. 
  

3. There was continued discussion of the two types of use cases. 
  
Pre-notarization   
  
In this use case, a human being introduces a person to a network for the purpose of issuing a digital ID. This establishes a future trust relationship in the signature of the person by virtue of the digital ID and machine processes to recognize and give credence to it. This approach could be an improvement in the present day level of trust and confidence in paper notarial processes which can be occasioned by compromises in trust and spotty levels of competence of a notary with regard to the legal procedures and fine points of notarization. 
  
Role of electronic notarization in this use case is a departure from the practices of paper records. The tasks are to apply such principles to legal documents, such as chains of title, and carry forward electronic signature technologies in an age of rapid technological change such that legal records survive many generations of signature technology evolution without disrupting legal stability. 
  
Contemporaneous notarization in the presence of a notary This use case mimics the practices of paper notarization but simply substitutes electronic documents for paper ones. 
  
Modelling Discussion 
  
Don Bergeron suggested that as a way to begin that we flesh out the use cases using the available tools of roles and objects and how they interact in a theoretical model to analyze what happens as technologies become obsolete. This may generate other use cases; perhaps how to recast an item, preserve the integrity of an object while allowing its iterations as an object to change through programming and hardware cycles, and at the same time, maintain the logical lock down of information. 
  
Use cases: 
1. Creation of the notarized state (process of notarizing, what is acted upon to show that something has been notarized); 
2. Use of an object that has been notarized - what would a using person or authority need to believe that they have received something worth getting 
3. What are different roles going to want factually from such a notarization? 
  
The Arizona diagram provided by the office of the Secretary of State shows what they thought was important. 
  
Don offered a use case template, which he promised he will send to John for posting. 
  
Manosh will do one use case, John will cooperate. 
  
4. ABA April 
  
San Francisco April 11-12 prior to RSA joint session. This in turns generates a need for access to prior aba work 
  
5. schedule 
The usual call in two weeks postponed for output from Manosh and John. 
  
6. other business 
  
Respectfully submitted, 
  
Eric E. Cohen 


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