Examination of the recipient's signing preferences yielded that you be asked whether or not to sign this message. Sign this message?

Diverging interpretations of the signature requirement

Signature or exchange of documents strictly required

Thus, if the method used failed to identify the party and to indicate that party's intention but it could nonetheless be proved through extraneous evidence that the electronic signature had been created by the signing party, such a signature would not meet the requirements of draft article 9, paragraph 3.

Certificate Signature Request

Examination of recipient's signing preferences yielded that the message should be signed using OpenPGP, at least for some recipients however, you have not configured valid OpenPGP signing certificates for this identity.

Common law does not impose any form requirement on signatures.

The conjunctive requirement in paragraph 3 (a) of article 9 would prevent electronic signatures from satisfying the requirement of law for a signature in such situations where the function of indicating approval of the contents of the electronic communication cannot be fulfilled by such signatures.

It stated that, in light of modern means of communication, unsigned writings play an important role and signature requirements were becoming less important.

This phrase provides that electronic signatures that only fulfil these minimum functions will satisfy the requirement of law for signatures.

Member States are required to ensure that advanced electronic signatures which are based on a qualified certificate and which are created by a secure signature creation device satisfy the legal requirements of a signature and are admissible as evidence in legal proceedings.

In our view, electronic signatures are merely another form of signature, and should in principle be legally valid as signatures without any special requirements of reliability.

By requiring either a signature or an exchange of documents, the form requirement ensures that the parties' assent to arbitration is expressly recorded.

In order to achieve functional equivalence between handwritten signatures and electronic signatures, there should not be any additional reliability requirement for electronic signatures as contained in paragraph 3 (b) of article 9.

You have requested to sign this message, but no valid signing keys have been configured for this identity.

Signature Signature

However, there may be instances where the law requires a signature that does not fulfil the function of indicating the signing party's approval of the information contained in the electronic communication.

You must sign for it.

We need your authorization.

Can I get an autograph?

This will provide parties with the certainty of knowing that the electronic signatures appended by them or being relied upon by them do satisfy the requirement of law for signatures, and therefore would not be denied legal validity on that basis.

Compliance with a requirement for a signature

The requirement of signatures under article II(2) has not been interpreted consistently by State courts.

Open File to Sign

Yea... I'll get the autograph... I have to go

Autograph fiends. They're not people.

(b) It could be used to the detriment of the very class of persons that the legal requirements for signature are intended to protect.

In order to also allow electronic signatures that are not intended to fulfil the function of indicating the signor's approval of the information contained in the electronic communication, to also satisfy a requirement of law for a signature, we therefore propose that paragraph 3 (a) of article 9 should be amended to read as follows

Besides situations where both parties had signed the same document, State courts have also concluded there to be a signature where there was a combination of alternative form requirements, recognizing the validity of an arbitration agreement when both parties had fulfilled either the signature or the exchange requirement but not to be met where only one party complied with the writing requirement.

And I'm happy to sign it for you with any name of any artist.

Ambassador Raph Uwechue

That court stated that, in the light of modern means of communication, unsigned writings play an increasingly important role and signature requirements are becoming less important and, in particular cases, specific conduct might, by virtue of the rules of good faith, substitute the form requirement.

You need to define a signature.

Software signature is required

I'd like to have his autograph.

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(1) Where the law requires a signature of a person, that requirement is met in relation to a data message if

Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations

All you have to do is fill in the signatures.

Sol had to get him to sign without his knowing what he was signing.

(Signed) P. Chkheidze Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations

If it is recognized that the legal effect of a signature is based on the proven link between the document, the signature and the purported signor, then it is irrelevant whether the signature method was of an appropriate level of reliability.

If paragraph 3 (b) of article 9 (and therefore the reliability requirement) is deleted, article 9 will provide that all electronic signatures that fulfil the functions described in paragraph 3 (a) of article 9 will satisfy the requirement of law for signatures.

In particular, what is meant by the term signature , whether the signature requirement applies to both the arbitration clause in a contract as well as the arbitration agreement and what is required by an exchange of letters or telegrams are all matters on which there have been different and sometimes conflicting interpretations.

For example, if the law requires a party to sign an offer document to indicate his acceptance of the terms contained in the document, that electronic signature would fulfil the requirements of the proposed paragraph 3 (a) of article 9 if it identifies the signing party, associates that party with the information contained in the document and indicates that party's approval of the information contained in the document.