On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
I applaud the foundation for getting an electronic signature method in place.
However, I have to say that to my mind echosign is nothing more than "authentication theater", and I wonder if it is going to make us look more than a bit clueless to the tech community. I'm surprised that a lawyer would consider a "signature" generated from typed text to be useful for anything. If you are are going to accept the typed signature, just accept the typed signature.
I don't know what this is talking about. Is there an announcement somewhere I missed? Or has the PSF declared announcements to be old-fashionable and despicable?
Sorry I didn't send the email at the exact same time as the blog posts that I had scheduled. You'll find out what we're talking about in some form or fashion at some point today.