ETSI and CEN work on new Rationalised Framework for Electronic Signatures

[Juan Carlos Cruellas <cruellas@ac.upc.edu>]

Dear all,

You might like to take a look to the STF-425 web page:

http://portal.etsi.org/STFs/STF_HomePages/STF425/STF425.asp

As mentioned, this STF (Specialists Task Force) is dealing with the 
definition of this new framework of standards and with the produciton of 
a workplan for its implementation. This was one of the consequences of 
the EC Mandate M/460

You may download a draft version of the framework, issued for getting 
comments in the same page or directly at:

http://portal.etsi.org/STFs/STF_HomePages/STF425/DSR_ESI_000099v000002.zip

I bring to your attention specifically the fact that the document 
identifies two types of services that would be very related to the 
protocols specified by our TC:  the TSP providing Signature Validation 
Services and TSPs providing Signature Generation Services (included in 
the clause 5.3.5 TSPs Supporting Electronic Signatures)!!.


As mentioned there is an email list for getting comments on the 
activities related to the implementation of the mandate M/460:
For subscription, access to:

http://list.etsi.org/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=e-signatures_news&A=1


Other STFs which you could be interested of are: STF-427, STF-426 and 
STF-428. Their web pages are accessible to similar URLs to the first one 
of this message substituing the numbers of the STFs by the corresponding 
one...