The National Marine Fisheries Service Policy Directive 32-110, "Use and Implementation of Electronic Signatures" outlines the following requirements for an approved electronic signature system:
- Technical non-repudiation services
- Legally binding the electronic transaction to an entity
- Providing chain of custody audit trails
- Providing an electronic receipt or acknowledgment of a successful submission
- Collecting only necessary information in the electronic signature authentication process
- Create a long-term retention and access policy
- Periodic review and re-evaluation of the electronic signature process
This sections documents design details that address these requirements.
Binding the Transaction to an Entity and Non-repudiation
Requirements 1 and 2 above are addressed in the design of three component parts of the system:
- identity assertion, person proofing, and registration
- terms and conditions and signing ceremony
- document binding and document integrity
identity assertion, person proofing, and registration