RE: Notary services requirements -- directions?

["Tobias Gondrom" <tobias@xxxxxxx>]

I fully agree with Denis statement that we need to clarify more what
kind of services should be offered per example.

E.g. should there be a service for administering of oaths (just to
choose one) - how would it look like ?

Please, this is the question for me to the mailing list: What kind of
use case/scenario do you see ?

I would really appreciate a first version of a strawman definition so
that we can focus again on gaining a hold on what the definition should
be.

Tobias


> The current text states:
> 
>     The functions of notaries
>     include the attestation of documents and certification of their
due
>     execution, administering of oaths, witnessing affidavits and
>     statutory declarations, certification of copy documents, noting
and
>     protesting of bills of exchange and the preparation of ships'
>     protests.
> 
> This tells what the functions of notaries are, but still does not tell
> what
> notary services are or will be.
> 
> Later on the text says:
> 
>     A notary service should support and enable a human notary to
fullfill
>     his tasks with electronic documents as well as he already does
with
>     paper based documents and processes.
> 
> This is is closer but still does not tell what "notary services" are
or
> will be.
> 
> Finally we have:
> 
>        Notary service: electronic service that supports a human notary
>        to provide his/her services on electronic based processes and
>        documents.
> 
> Is this definition sufficient ? I do not think so, since it is too
broad
> and
>   is not self-descriptive.
> 
> I understand that the "notaries services" that we will consider will
only
> cover a *subset* of all the services a (human) Notary can perform, and
we
> have not yet identified that subset of services and both the different
or
> common characteristics of that subset.
> 
> So I ask the editor (or others) to propose a strawman definition that
we
> can
> discuss.
> 
> Denis