At 03:54 PM 12/13/2002, Don Park wrote:
Todd,
> Individuals should be provided with signing devices immediately,
> without further delay. People who have lifetimes of good behavior
> and honoring their promises will race to use the studly things,
> reaching unheard of lower prices and better terms of trade.
Provided by whom? Banks? Governments?
Best,
Don Park
Docuverse
Walmart :-) Taiwan could produce the device in 2 weeks shit,
there are probably designs sitting on the shelf already.
There is not any particular connection between individuals'
establishing their own signatures, signing contracts, etc.
and banks or governments. I would like to refer to ISO 15944,
Open EDI,
Rule 39: Conceptually a business transaction can be considered to be
constructed from a set of fundamental activities. They are planning,
identification, negotiation, actualization and post-actualization.
http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1 and the doc. is number N241.
Again, this is real old stuff. Banks, like accountants :-(
come at the end of the transaction lifecycle. Signing is
much more about buying/selling and promising to deliver
or pay.
Actually I am amazed no bank or credit card has broken
ranks to sell signing devices. The American Express Blue
card for example gets you halfway there, if you wrap a
screen and keyboard around it, with an IRDA port. But
surely it is impossible for strong Identity to ever arise
from a payment metaphor requiring me to keypunch
my PIN in the terminals of sleazy restaurants and retail outlets.
Warm regards,
Todd
