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Subject: RE: [ubl-security] E-archiving UBL documents with external attachments
http://www.peppol.eu/work_in_progress/wp2-virtual-company-dossier/wp-partners Best regards Roberto > > Hello, > > Thanks to both of you for good comments, as usual. > Do you have a contact person, or a public mailing list, for > the VCD? > > Pim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roberto Cisternino [mailto:roberto@javest.com] > Sent: 19 October 2010 10:54 > To: Oriol Bausą Peris > Cc: Pim van der Eijk; ubl-security@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: Re: [ubl-security] E-archiving UBL documents with > external attachments > > Hi Pim, > > I think every country has its laws, but the most common law > in EU about archiving is about storing the view of the > document (see PDF/A-1) > > I do not know many other formats sanctioned for legal > archiving. > > Pratically every Nation should endorse a new format of > archiving before using it legally. > > The general archiving of course is always possible, but one > should be able to reproduce a stable view of the document > for the Authorities, so why > PDF/A-1 is enough adopted. > > I personally think PDF/A-1 is an "old" archiving format > today as we are more required to store a structured document > than a raster or PDF graphic chunks. > Maybe PDF/A-2 is in this direction... but I would like to > see UBL endorsed for legal archiving around the globe (with > a shared methodology) > > The PEPPOL VCD (Virtual Company Dossier) has some > involvments with these attachments and reference problems, > maybe you could share with them some of your thoughts. > > Technically you could add a PDF/A-1 version into an UBL > document inside an UBLExtension, but again this practice > should be endorsed by the relevant Authorities. > > As Governments are moving to Open Source I believe > OpenDocument represent a good sample for solving the > archiving issue. > > But UBL is a structured document and I am not aware of > existing specific methodologies to archive structured > business documents. > > So my final suggestion is to follow the VCD project as it > will be endorsed in all EU. > > Best regards > > Roberto Cisternino > >> Hi Pim, >> >> The UBL Security SC has focused on defining a way to > digitally sign a >> UBL document by using UBL Extension capabilities and > existant digital >> signature standards such as XML Dsig or XAdES. I think > you are going >> one step further as your requirement is to sign a package: > A signature >> for the UBL document plus the binary attachments. >> >> As you suggest, using External References can be a > solution for this, >> as you are able to add the document hash in the external > reference >> class, technically you can always sign the main UBL > document which >> contents the hashes of the external binary objects. I am > not a lawyer >> though, so maybe other people more knowledgable in legal > aspects can >> confirm or rebate this point. >> >> Best regards, >> Oriol >> >> El 18/10/2010, a las 18:08, Pim van der Eijk escribió: >> >>> How do UBL projects handle this, as many UBL documents > need to be >>> archived for years for legal reasons? From an e-archiving > point of >>> view, is it really important, or even legally required, > that a UBL >>> document and any externally referenced payloads were sent > as a single >>> message? I would think that being able to send > attachments with >>> documents in a single MIME envelope is mainly > convenience, and that >>> in theory it should be possible to send attachments > separately, or >>> just reference them, as long as they are and remain > retrievable, have >>> the referenced content-id (or other external reference > type), the >>> document hash is valid, and the document containing the > hash is >>> signed or sealed. Can external references be used with > documents and >>> attachments that that need to be archived in compliance > with relevant laws? >> >> > > > -- > * JAVEST by Roberto Cisternino > * > * Document Engineering Services Ltd. - Alliance Member > * UBL Italian Localization SubCommittee (ITLSC), co-Chair > * UBL Online Community editorial board member (ubl.xml.org) > * Italian UBL Advisor > > Roberto Cisternino > > mobile: +39 328 2148123 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +39 328 2148123 end_of_the_skype_highlighting > begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +39 > 328 2148123 end_of_the_skype_highlighting > skype: roberto.cisternino.ubl-itlsc > > [UBL Technical Committee] > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl > > [UBL Online Community] > http://ubl.xml.org > > [UBL International Conferences] > http://www.ublconference.org > > [UBL Italian Localization Subcommittee] > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl-itlsc > > [Iniziativa divulgativa UBL Italia] > http://www.ubl-italia.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. 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