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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 22:10:38 -0400
From: MJENSEN@charlie.usd.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-copyright@cni.org>
Subject: aba resolution


****AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION RESOLUTION ADOPTED****
 
             AFFECTING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND
                    INFORMATION SECURITY
 
The House of Delegates of the American Bar Association  (ABA) 
approved the first ABA Resolution that is addressed to the 
critical legal issues affecting electronic data interchange and
electronic commerce, of assuring the authenticity and integrity 
of data in electronic form. Developed and proposed by the 
Section of Science and Technology of the American Bar
Association, the Resolution (number 115) was approved by 
voice vote on August 19, 1992. The resolution provides:
 
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The American Bar Association supports action by
federal and state governments, international 
organizations, and private entities to:
 
a) facilitate and promote the orderly development
of legal standards to encourage the use of 
information in electronic form, including 
appropriate legal and professional education; 
 
b) encourage the use of appropriate and properly 
implemented security techniques, procedures and 
practices to assure the authenticity and integrity 
of information in electronic form; and 
 
c) recognize that information in electronic form, 
where appropriate, may be considered to 
satisfy legal requirements regarding a  
writing or signature to the same extent as  
information on paper or in other conventional 
forms, when appropriate security techniques, 
practices, and procedures have been adopted.
 
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Current legal rules generally do not fully recognize or accommodate 
the fact that data may be represented in electronic form. It is 
anticipated that this ABA Resolution will serve as a catalyst for 
legislators, courts, and private entities to advocate legal recognition 
of EDI and corresponding reliable information security.
 
The EDI and Information Technology Division of the Section of 
Science and Technology is undertaking diverse projects related to 
information security, commercial EDI, judicial EDI, healthcare 
informatics, financial EDI and other matters. 
 
For further information, contact:
  Susan Walkowski, Section Manager
  Section of Science and Technology
  American Bar Association
  750 North Lake Shore Drive
  Chicago, IL 60611-4497  
  Phone: 312-988-5599  Fax: 312-988-6281
 
 
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