• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:58:02 -0400

Tim Bray wrote:
> As a legal illiterate, I'm not sure what the real state of play is
> here - but I still think that a list of context-free name/value
> pairs is a pretty shaky basis for a legally binding transaction. -T.

Disclaimer: NAL.

Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context.
A telegram that says "SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT"
(only 190 bits in 5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers)
is as good a legal document as any, even sans digital signature.

-- 
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   Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
			-- Coleridge / Politzer

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