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[Andrew Chilcott <andrew.chilcott@stpsolutions.com>]

Mike

Sorry not to have come back to you sooner but I have been away on a
vacation.

With regard to the question of a requirement for a trusted third party
holding a message archive to prove, in the event of a dispute, that a
contract existed, the appropriate place to add a comment would seem to be in
2.1.5 under the heading 'Security' with the following added to the note at
the bottom of the section:

'The Archiving, Authentication and Non-Repudiation of Origin and Receipt may
be performed by a trusted third party through which the Parties to a
transaction agree to channel transaction messages in order to provide
independent historical proof that that the transaction took place at a
specific time and on specific terms.'

.... or something similar!


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