Re: Non Repudiation

[christopher ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

> Arvola Chan wrote:
> 
> Don't non repudiation of origin and non repudiation of receipt imply that the recipient has to
> keep a persistent copy of the message for some rather long period of time (typically of the order
> of years)?
> 
> Is this duration implicit (i.e., has the same value for all cases) or should it be represented
> explicitly in the CPA?

I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV;-) Seems to me that each party would be concerned
only with its own archiving, not its partner's.

> 
> Another related question is whether the logging functionality to support non repudiation belongs
> above or below the Message Service Interface.

I don't see this as a function of the MSI as NR is a business-level concern.

> 
> -Arvola
>