Re: Notary services requirements -- directions?

[Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Abstract
> 
> This document defines the requirements for e-Certification services. Such 
> services may be used when there is a need to register one or many documents 
> and to certify that these documents have been duly semantically verified by 
> a given person prior to registration. These persons may or may not be 
> Notaries, as understood by Civil Law or Common Law. The document to be 
> certified may or may not contain electronic signatures from other persons."
> 

Independant of the usage of the word "e-certification service" I am not
sure that the description is what we have in mind as services to be supported
by a protocol.

What is meant by 'registration'?

My understanding was that we can access to a service that performs certain
aspects of a semantical verification, and does not only rely on a person
doing this, or else, what is proposed looks to me as a front end to an 
archiving system (which may still be one of the use cases). 

At best, the title is one possible use case IMO. But I may be wrong.

Futhermore, it doesn't seem to me that we have agreement about whether
we talk about requirements for a protocol or for a service. 

To me we arec talking about protocol requirements, i.e. by what means
can we access to the services and the functions it provides, and what
information we can submit or and what do we obtain. 

Peter