ETSI TR 102 605 V1.1.1 (2007-09) Technical Report Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Registered E-Mail 2 ETSI TR 102 605 V1.1.1 (2007-09) Reference DTR/ESI-000051 Keywords e-commerce, electronic signature, security, e-mail, trust services ETSI 650 Route des Lucioles F-06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - FRANCE Tel.: +33 4 92 94 42 00 Fax: +33 4 93 65 47 16 Siret N° 348 623 562 00017 - NAF 742 C Association à but non lucratif enregistrée à la Sous-Préfecture de Grasse (06) N° 7803/88 Important notice Individual copies of the present document can be downloaded from: http://www.etsi.org The present document may be made available in more than one electronic version or in print. In any case of existing or perceived difference in contents between such versions, the reference version is the Portable Document Format (PDF). In case of dispute, the reference shall be the printing on ETSI printers of the PDF version kept on a specific network drive within ETSI Secretariat. 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ETSI 3 ETSI TR 102 605 V1.1.1 (2007-09) Contents Intellectual Property Rights................................................................................................................................7 Foreword.............................................................................................................................................................7 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................7 Executive Summary............................................................................................................................................7 1 Scope ........................................................................................................................................................9 2 References ..............................................................................................................................................10 2.1 Informative references......................................................................................................................................10 3 Definitions and abbreviations.................................................................................................................11 3.1 Definitions........................................................................................................................................................11 3.2 Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................................11 4 Questionnaire .........................................................................................................................................12 5 Market ....................................................................................................................................................13 5.1 Specific Conclusions on Market.......................................................................................................................17 6 Regulations and legal validity ................................................................................................................17 6.1 Survey overview...............................................................................................................................................18 6.2 National situation .............................................................................................................................................20 6.2.1 Specific legislation on REM evidential services.........................................................................................20 6.2.1.1 Posta Elettronica Certificata (PEC) (Italy)............................................................................................20 6.2.1.2 Belgium.................................................................................................................................................21 6.2.1.3 France....................................................................................................................................................21 6.2.2 REM services provided by public administrations with public notarization functions...............................22 6.2.2.1 Secure Telematic Notifications Service (Spain)....................................................................................22 6.2.2.2 ChamberSign Sverige AB (Sweden).....................................................................................................22 6.2.2.3 Hybrid REM systems (send electronically - receive on paper) .............................................................22 6.2.3 General electronic signature and contractual legislation.............................................................................22 6.3 Specific conclusions on regulation and legal validity ......................................................................................23 7 Services ..................................................................................................................................................24 7.1 Evidence...........................................................................................................................................................24 7.2 Other security related services..........................................................................................................................25 7.3 Other Services..................................................................................................................................................26 7.4 External ............................................................................................................................................................27 7.5 Specific conclusions services ...........................................................................................................................28 8 REM system overviews..........................................................................................................................29 8.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................29 8.2 Initial architecture.............................................................................................................................................30 8.3 Generic Model and Specific Adaptations.........................................................................................................30 8.3.1 REM relevant entities .................................................................................................................................31 8.3.2 AFNOR REM service.................................................................................................................................34 8.3.3 Italian REM service (a.k.a. "CNIPA" model) .............................................................................................34 8.3.4 UPU ECPM model .....................................................................................................................................35 8.3.5 Critical Path model .....................................................................................................................................36 9 Services within REM..............................................................................................................................37 9.1 Availability of evidence ...................................................................................................................................38 9.1.1 Flow of evidence between parties...............................................................................................................38 9.1.2 Carrying evidence.......................................................................................................................................39 9.1.3 On-line querying services without signed evidences ..................................................................................39 9.1.4 Specific conclusions on the availability of evidence ..................................................................................40 9.2 Message identification......................................................................................................................................40 9.2.1 Allocation of message identifier .................................................................................................................40